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Mark D. Anderson, “From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism and American Anthropology” (Stanford UP, 2019) (2020)

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Mark Anderson’s From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism and American Anthropology (Stanford University Press) is at once a story about US anthropology and US liberalism from the 1930s to the 1960s. By interrogating the Boasian intervention into the idea of biological race, Anderson shows how, despite their progressive and anti-racist intentions, Boas and ‘the Boasians’ naturalised the idea of the United States as a white nation and helped to entrench problematic discourses, such as “colour-blindness”. Alongside tracing the history of Boasian thought on race, highlighting the paradoxes and strange logics in Boasian anti-racism, Anderson identifies contemporaries who undertook more rigorous examinations of race, who offered more critical anti-racist analytics, but were sidelined in the history of US anthropology. From Boas to Black Power doesn’t attempt to deny that the Boasians offered a trenchant critique of the biological conception of race, but shows that their commitment to liberalism undermined a true reckoning with how race shapes the United States. Mark D. Anderson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, and also wrote Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras (University of Minnesota Press).

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Authors & Contributors
Bonmassar, Michele
Mendes, Gabriel N.
Redman, Samuel J.
Evans, Jazmin Antwynette
Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy
Kimani S. K. Nehusi
Concepts
Science and race
Racism
Anthropology
African Americans
Cultural anthropology
African Americans and science
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
United States
Italy
Germany
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
Polynesia
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Institutions
Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)
Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic
Columbia University
Smithsonian Institution
University of Chicago
American Museum of Natural History, New York
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