Journal ArticleTransforming Anthropology · October 1, 2021
In 1909 Franz Boas conducted a massive study entitled Changes in Bodily Forms of Descendants of Immigrants. In this study, he demonstrated that Eastern and Southern European immigrants to the United States were not racially different from other Europeans b ...
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Journal ArticleTransforming Anthropology · October 1, 2016
This essay critiques mismatch theory in science education, a theory supported by opponents of affirmative action who strive to derail efforts to diversify institutions of higher education. Can high-achieving students survive and thrive in an academic envir ...
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Journal ArticleHAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory · January 1, 2016
In this Forum, four anthropologists have chosen an "ancestral" figure to give voice to. Anthropologists' ancestors are generally teachers, mentors, or, less proximally, canonized scholars of prior generations. Anthropologists draw on their ancestors for th ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Philosophical Society Proceedings · 2010
Papers from the Symposium: Cultural Subjects and Objects: The Legacy of Franz Boas and Its Futures in Anthropology, Academe, and Human Rights. ...
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Journal Article · 2009
2009 The Location of Franz Boas within the African-American Struggle. In Franz Boas: Kultur, Sprache, Rasse. Friedrich Pöhl & Bernhard Tilg, eds. Pp. 111-129. Wege einer antirassistischen Anthropologie, Wien, LIT Verlag. ...
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Chapter · 2009
2009 The Location of Franz Boas within the African-American Struggle. In Franz Boas: Kultur, Sprache, Rasse. Friedrich Pöhl & Bernhard Tilg, eds. Pp. 111-129. Wege einer antirassistischen Anthropologie, Wien, LIT Verlag. ...
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Journal ArticleTransforming Anthropology · October 1, 2021
In 1909 Franz Boas conducted a massive study entitled Changes in Bodily Forms of Descendants of Immigrants. In this study, he demonstrated that Eastern and Southern European immigrants to the United States were not racially different from other Europeans b ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleTransforming Anthropology · October 1, 2016
This essay critiques mismatch theory in science education, a theory supported by opponents of affirmative action who strive to derail efforts to diversify institutions of higher education. Can high-achieving students survive and thrive in an academic envir ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleHAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory · January 1, 2016
In this Forum, four anthropologists have chosen an "ancestral" figure to give voice to. Anthropologists' ancestors are generally teachers, mentors, or, less proximally, canonized scholars of prior generations. Anthropologists draw on their ancestors for th ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Philosophical Society Proceedings · 2010
Papers from the Symposium: Cultural Subjects and Objects: The Legacy of Franz Boas and Its Futures in Anthropology, Academe, and Human Rights. ...
Cite
Journal Article · 2009
2009 The Location of Franz Boas within the African-American Struggle. In Franz Boas: Kultur, Sprache, Rasse. Friedrich Pöhl & Bernhard Tilg, eds. Pp. 111-129. Wege einer antirassistischen Anthropologie, Wien, LIT Verlag. ...
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Chapter · 2009
2009 The Location of Franz Boas within the African-American Struggle. In Franz Boas: Kultur, Sprache, Rasse. Friedrich Pöhl & Bernhard Tilg, eds. Pp. 111-129. Wege einer antirassistischen Anthropologie, Wien, LIT Verlag. ...
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Journal ArticleSouls · January 1, 2008
John Singleton's 2001 version of the blaxploitation film Shaft reinterprets this iconic representation of Black masculinity within an explicit and self-conscious treatment of the problem of racism. The film moves from a powerfully counter-stereotypical ope ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Anthropologist · March 2004
The Problem of Race in the Twenty‐First Century. Thomas C. Holt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. 146 pp.Race in Mind: Race, IQ, and Other Racisms. Alexander Alland Jr. ...
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Book · 2004
Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience is a fascinating collection of readings that explores how people negotiate identity in the United States today. Brings together readings that provide a thoroughly engaging and fascinating look at central is ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Anthropological Research · 2003
2003 Review of Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. George W. Stocking, Jr. Journal of Anthropological Research 59:252-253. ...
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Journal ArticleAnthropological Theory · 2001
2001 Response to 'Philosophical Aspects of the "AAA
Statement on 'Race' " Anthropological Theory Vol. 1(4)467-
471. ...
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Journal ArticleSouls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society · 2001
2001 Profit, Power, and Privilege: The Racial Politics of Ancestry. Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, & Soceity 3(4):66-72. ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Anthropologist · 2000
2000 Review of African-American Pioneers in Anthropology, edited Faye V. Harrison and Ira E. Harrison. American Anthropologist 102(2):368-370. ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Forces · 1999
1999 Review of The Roots of African American Identity: Memory and History in Free Antebellum Communities, by Elizabeth Rauh Bethel. Social Forces 78(1)372-374. ...
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Book · 1998
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-ca ...
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Journal ArticleTransforming Anthropology · 1998
1998 Unraveling the Boasian Discourse: The Racial Politics of "Culture" in School Desegregation, 1944-1954. Transforming Anthropology 7:(1)15-32. ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Sociology · 1996
1996 Review of Rethinking Race: Franz Boaz and His Contemporaries, by Vernon J. Williams, Jr. American Journal of Sociology 102(3):909-910. ...
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Journal ArticleTransforming Anthropology · 1994
Baker, Lee D. and Thomas C. Patterson
1994 Race, Racism, and the History of U.S. Anthropology.
Transforming Anthropology (5)1:1-7. ...
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