Lee D. Baker

Journal Article Transforming 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 text Open Access Cite

:From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism, and American Anthropology. Mark Anderson. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. ix + 262 pp. (Cloth US$90, Paper $28.00, E‐Book $15.12)

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From the President

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Truth's Fool: Derek Freeman and the War over Cultural Anthropology by Peter Hempenstall Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. 321 pp.

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Is it Worth it? Science Education of the Talented 2%

Journal Article Transforming 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 text Open Access Cite

Voicing the ancestors: Readings in memory of George Stocking

Journal Article HAU: 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 ... Full text Cite

Seizing the time: Transforming anthropology at a crossroads

Journal Article Transforming Anthropology · October 1, 2010 Full text Cite

Meet Lee Baker, The State of Things, WUNC National Public Radio

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The cult of Franz Boas and his "conspiracy" to destroy the white race.

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Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture

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Franz Boas and his “Conspiracy” to Destroy the White Race

Journal Article American 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

Notes on “Post-Racial” Society

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Racism, risk, and the new color of dirty jobs

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Saggin’ and Braggin’

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The Location of Franz Boas within the African-American Struggle [reprint]

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. ... Cite

Herskovits and the Heart of Blackness (Consultant)

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The Location of Franz Boas within the African-American Struggle [reprint]

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. ... Cite

Review of The social sciences and theories of race

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Boas, Franz

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"Anthropology, History of."

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Speaking of Anthropological Theory

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Review of The Social Sciences and Theories of Race by Vernon J. Williams, Jr.

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Boas, Franz

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"Anthropology, History of."

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Speaking of Anthropological Theory

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Risk Avoidance and Transfer: Thoughts on New Directions for Africana Studies

Journal Article International Journal of Africana Studies · 2008 Cite

Black women in the ivory tower, 1850–1954: An intellectual history by stephanie y. evans

Journal Article Souls · January 1, 2008 Full text Cite

When the “good one” is “baaad”: Modern racism in john singleton’s shaft

Journal Article Souls · 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 ... Full text Cite

Black Women in the Ivory Tower, Womanism, and Segregated Scholars

Journal Article Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Soceity · 2008 Link to item Cite

Mission Improbable and the Possible Mission

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Signing Off

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Transforming Anthropology

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Signing Off

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W.G. Pearson’s Uniforms about Distinction

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Mad or Meditative in Maricopa

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Mad or Meditative in Maricopa

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Hate Crime, Plain and Simple

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Thinking Through Genre

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Thinking Through Genre

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Missionary Positions.

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Missionary Positions.

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Parental involvement on display at W.G. Pearson

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Taking the Plunge and Seizing the Time- -Again

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Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge

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Taking the Plunge and Seizing the Time- -Again. Transforming Anthropology

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Review of Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge by Jerry Gershenhorn.

Journal Article American Anthropologist · 2005 Cite

Taking the Plunge and Seizing the Time- -Again

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Naming Moments Properly.

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Rethinking Black Studies: You Can't Do That With Out Organization

Journal Article Souls A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society · November 2004 Link to item Cite

A Model Approach for Studying Race: Provocative Theory, Sound Science, and Very Good History

Journal Article American 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. ... Full text Cite

Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience

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 ... Cite

Review of Racism: A Short History by George M. Fredrickson

Journal Article New West Indian Guide · 2004 Cite

You can’t do that without organization

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Franz Boas out of the Ivory Tower

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Message from the President

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Affirmative Action and Anthropological Research

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Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. George W. Stocking, Jr.

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Review of Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. George W. Stocking, Jr.

Journal Article Journal of Anthropological Research · 2003 2003 Review of Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. George W. Stocking, Jr. Journal of Anthropological Research 59:252-253. ... Cite

Why Students Get A’s

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Frederic Ward Putnam

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Research, Reform, and Racial Uplift: The Mission of the Hampton Folklore Society 1893-1899

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The Color Blind Bind

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Uncommon Ground: From Pastures to Protest

Journal Article UPDATE: The Newsletter of the African Burial Ground Project · 2001 Cite

Response to 'Philosophical Aspects of the "AAA Statement on 'Race' "

Journal Article Anthropological Theory · 2001 2001 Response to 'Philosophical Aspects of the "AAA Statement on 'Race' " Anthropological Theory Vol. 1(4)467- 471. ... Link to item Cite

Profit, Power, and Privilege: The Racial Politics of Ancestry

Journal Article Souls: 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. ... Cite

Afrocentricty and the American Dream

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Review of African-American Pioneers in Anthropology, edited Faye V. Harrison and Ira E. Harrison

Journal Article American Anthropologist · 2000 2000 Review of African-American Pioneers in Anthropology, edited Faye V. Harrison and Ira E. Harrison. American Anthropologist 102(2):368-370. ... Cite

Daniel G. Brinton's success on the road to obscurity, 1890-99.

Journal Article Cultural anthropology : journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology · January 2000 Full text Cite

Commitment to Scientific Truth

Journal Article Anthropology Newsletter · April 1999 Cite

Review of The Roots of African American Identity: Memory and History in Free Antebellum Communities, by Elizabeth Rauh Bethel

Journal Article Social 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. ... Cite

Racism in Professional Settings: Forms of Address as Clues to Power Relations

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

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 ... Cite

Cultural Creolization and the Constitution of Ethnicity Amongst Aboriginal Professionals in Dampierland, Western Australia, In Foragers in Context: Long Term, Regional and Historical Perspectives in Hunter-Gatherer Studies

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Doing the Right Thing in Anthropology

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