Beschreibung:
From Boas to Black Power investigates how U.S. cultural anthropologists wrote about race, racism, and "America" in the 20th century as a window into the greater project of U.S. anti-racist liberalism. Anthropology as a discipline and the American project share a common origin: their very foundations are built upon white supremacy, and both are still reckoning with their racist legacies. In this groundbreaking intellectual history of anti-racism within twentieth-century cultural anthropology, Mark Anderson starts with the legacy of Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict and continues through the post-war and Black Power movement to the birth of the Black Studies discipline, exploring the problem "America" represents for liberal anti-racism.
Prologue: The Custom of the CountryIntroduction1. The Anti-Racist Liberal Americanism of Boasian Anthropology2. Franz Boas, Miscegenation, and the White Problem3. Ruth Benedict, "American" Culture, and the Color Line4. Post-World War II Anthropology and the Social Life of Race and Racism5. Charles Wagley, Marvin Harris, and the Comparative Study of Race6. Black Studies and the Reinvention of AnthropologyConclusion: Anti-Racism, Liberalism, and Anthropology in the Age of Trump