From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954 by Lee D. Baker

From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954

Lee D. Baker

313 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 (t...

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