Rethinking race : Franz Boas and his contemporaries /

In this thought-provoking reexamination of the history of ""racial science"" Vernon J. Williams argues that all current theories of race and race relations can be understood as extensions of or reactions to the theories formulated during the first half of the twentieth century. W...

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1. Verfasser: Williams, Vernon J.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1996.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Franz Uri Boas' paradox
  • Boas and the African American intelligentsia
  • The myths of Africa in the writings of Booker T. Washington
  • W.E.B. Du Bois, George W. Ellis, and the reconstruction of the image of Africa
  • Robert Ezra Park and race and class relations.