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Melville J. Herskovits and the racial politics of knowledge /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gershenhorn, Jerry
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2004]
Series:Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
Subjects:
Herskovits, Melville J. > (Melville Jean), > 1895-1963.
Anthropologists > United States > Biography.
Anthropologists > Africa, West > Biography.
African Americans > Anthropometry.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
Racism in anthropology > United States.
Cultural relativism > Africa, West.
African diaspora.
Self-determination, National > Africa, West.
Africa, West > Social life and customs.
Table of Contents:
  • The making of an anthropologist
  • The attack on pseudoscientific racism
  • Transforming the debate on Black culture
  • Subverting the myth of the Negro past
  • Objectivity and the development of Negro studies
  • The postwar expansion of African studies
  • Foreign policy critic.