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Rethinking Race [Elektronische Ressource] : Franz Boas and His Contemporaries

Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015

163 p.

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978-0-8131-1963-2

LB 31960 LB 27610

 

f Online-Publikation  Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  USA  Schwarze  Rassismus  Ethnische Beziehungen 

 

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978-0-8131-4908-0

In this thought-provoking reexamination of the history of ""racial science"" Vernon J. Williams argues that all current theories of race and race relations can be understood as extensions of or reactions to the theories formulated during the first half of the twentieth century. Williams explores these theories in a carefully crafted analysis of Franz Boas and his influence upon his contemporaries, especially W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, George W. Ellis, and Robert E. Park. Historians have long recognized the monumental role Franz Boas played in eviscerating the racist worldview that pr...