The Social Sciences And Theories of Race - Softcover

Williams, Vernon J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252073207 ISBN 13: 9780252073205

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

In this collection of seven essays, Williams (African American and African Diaspora studies, Indiana U.) explores how ideas of race and race relations developed in the work of a collection of prominent anthropologists, sociologists, and other social thinkers. The opening chapter unearths the subaltern traditions of black Westerner ethnologies and ethnographies, followed by thematically related discussions of the place of race and racism in the cultural theory of anthropologist Franz Boas and the work of George Washington Ellis as an example of the subaltern tradition of African American anthropology. He then sets out a theory of social change that emphasizes the role of outside political and social forces on the decline of racist thinking in the social sciences, later exploring this theme as it specifically relates to the intellectual evolution of Booker T. Washington, Ulysses G. Weatherly's arguments about African American culture, and the libertarian-conservative uplift ideology of Monroe Nathan Work. These general themes are explored in more specific cases. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Vernon J. Williams Jr. is Professor Emeritus in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University 
 

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• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252073207
• ISBN 13: 9780252073205
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 151
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