Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race

by Jack Glazier

Paul Radin, famed ethnographer of the Winnebago, joined Fisk University in the late 1920s. During his three-year appointment, he and graduate student Andrew Polk
Watson collected autobiographies and religious conversion narratives from elderly African Americans. Their texts represent the first systematic record of slavery as told by
former slaves. That innovative, subject-centered research complemented like-minded scholarship by African American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611863503
• ISBN13: 9781611863505
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"