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Lee D. Baker
From Savage to Negro
From Savage to Negro
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Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions-Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine established in 1896) and Brown v. Board of Education (the public school desegregation decision of 1954)-Baker shows how racial categories change over time.
Baker paints a vivid picture of the relationships between specific African American and white scholars, who orchestrated a paradigm shift within the social sciences from ideas based on Social Darwinism to those based on cultural relativism. He demonstrates that the greatest impact on the way the law codifies racial differences has been made by organizations such as the NAACP, which skillfully appropriated the new social science to exploit the politics of the Cold War.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Baker, Lee D.
Published: 11/23/1998
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520211681
Pages: 313
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.06w x 0.82d
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Baker paints a vivid picture of the relationships between specific African American and white scholars, who orchestrated a paradigm shift within the social sciences from ideas based on Social Darwinism to those based on cultural relativism. He demonstrates that the greatest impact on the way the law codifies racial differences has been made by organizations such as the NAACP, which skillfully appropriated the new social science to exploit the politics of the Cold War.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Baker, Lee D.
Published: 11/23/1998
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520211681
Pages: 313
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.06w x 0.82d
