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Boasians at war : anthropology, race, and World War II
- Title
- Boasians at war : anthropology, race, and World War II / Anthony Q. Hazard, Jr.
- Author
- Hazard, Anthony Q.
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
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Details
- Description
- xv, 261 pages : color illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- This volume seeks to recover a specific historical moment within the tradition of anthropologists trained in the United States under Franz Boas, arguably the father of modern American anthropology. Focusing on Boasians Ashley Montagu, Margaret Mead, Melville Herskovits, and Ruth Benedict, Anthony Hazard highlights the extent to which the Boasians offer historicized explanations of racism that move beyond a quest to reshape only the discipline: Boasian war work pointed to the histories of chattel slavery and colonialism to theorize not just race, but the emergence of racism as both systemic and interpersonal. The realities of race that continue to plague the United States have direct ties to the anthropological work of the figures examined here, particularly within the context of the 20th-century black freedom struggle. Ultimately, Boasians at War offers a detailed glimpse of the long troubled history of the concept of race, along with the real-life realities of racism, that have carried on despite the harnessing of scientific knowledge to combat both. .
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Papa Franz: "The Most Grotesque Fictions" -- Ashley Montagu: The Negro Question and the Myth of Race -- Margaret Mead: "A Fairly Typical Old American" on Race and Racism -- Melville Herskovits: The Negro Past and Present -- Ruth Benedict: The "Darker Side of America" and Scientific Absurdities.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-869
- ISBN
- 3030408817
- 9783030408817
- OCLC
- 1136960724
- Author
- Hazard, Anthony Q., author.
- Title
- Boasians at war : anthropology, race, and World War II / Anthony Q. Hazard, Jr.
- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Electronic version: Hazard, Anthony Q. Boasians at war. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 9783030408824 (OCoLC)1152065491
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-869