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

by Lee D. Baker

Book Overview

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-called "separate but equal" doctrine established in 1896) and Brown v. Board of Education (the public school desegregation decision of 1954)--Baker shows how racial categories change...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520211685
• ISBN13: 9780520211681
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"