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Melville J. Herskovits : and the racial politics of knowledge
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- Creator
- Jerry Gershenhorn
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780803221871, 0803221878
- OCLC
- ocm52799586
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-327) and index.
- 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
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.