This volume examines the rise and decline of racial science and its relationship to the political and social imposition of Jim Crow in the American South, a racialized code of laws grounded upon an inherently racist and prejudicial pseudoscience.
This volume examines the rise and decline of racial science and its relationship to the political and social imposition of Jim Crow in the American South, a racialized code of laws grounded upon an inherently racist and prejudicial pseudoscience.
Michael L. Blakey, National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Anthropology, Africana Studies, and American Studies and Director of the Institute for Historical Biology, is a leading anthropologist at William & Mary, whose training and productive research career (80 publications in major journals) integrates human biology, history, and culture, including critical writings on the history and philosophy of science. He directed the unparalleled bioarchaeological and interdisciplinary project on the African Burial Ground, today a U.S. National Monument in Manhattan. He is the recipient of many awards, including two President's Awards of the American Anthropological Association, the Legacy Award of the Association of Black Anthropologists, an Honorary Doctor of Science from CUNY, and the Plumeri Award.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Preface Acknowledgements 1. Jim Crow 2. The Rise of Eugenics and American Anthropology 3. Racist Medicine and its Antithesis 4. Racial Eclipse at World's End 5. Anthropology and Race in the Second Half of the 20th Century 6. Black Anthropologists against the Grain in the Second Reconstruction 7. Anthropology Slowly Turns to the Study of Racism 8. Museums Reflect Whiteness Prospectus to Volume 3 Glossary Further Reading
Foreword Preface Acknowledgements 1. Jim Crow 2. The Rise of Eugenics and American Anthropology 3. Racist Medicine and its Antithesis 4. Racial Eclipse at World's End 5. Anthropology and Race in the Second Half of the 20th Century 6. Black Anthropologists against the Grain in the Second Reconstruction 7. Anthropology Slowly Turns to the Study of Racism 8. Museums Reflect Whiteness Prospectus to Volume 3 Glossary Further Reading
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