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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Autore principale: Williams, Vernon J.
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1996.
Accesso online:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=52048
Sommario:
  • 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.