Tag: Franz Boas

  • My work is about the first two generations of Chinese and Japanese Americans who married whites in the U.S. West between 1880 and 1954.

  • Professor Franz Boas, who writes the leading article this month, is a member of the Department of Anthropology in Columbia University. The editor of Science reports that the leading scientists of America regard this department of Columbia as the strongest in the country. This gives a peculiar weight to Dr. Boas’ words, which were first…

  • Race, ideas, and ideals: A comparison of Franz Boas and Hans F.K. Günther History of European Ideas Volume 32, Issue 3, 2006 pages 313-332 DOI: 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2006.05.001 Amos Morris-Reich, Director of the Bucerius Institute Department of Jewish History University of Haifa, Israel This article compares two radically opposed views concerning “race” in the first half of…

  • The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars Cambridge University Press September 1993 396 pages 228 x 152 mm ISBN: 9780521458757 DOI: 10.2277/0521458757 Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public Affairs Columbia University This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation…

  • Race Problems in America Science Magazine Volume 29, Number 752 (1909-05-28) pages 839-849 DOI: 10.1126/science.29.752.839 Franz Boas The development of the American nation through amalgamation of diverse European nationalities and the ever-increasing heterogeneity of the component elements of four people have called attention to the anthropological and biological problems involved in this process. I propose…

  • The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance Ashgate Publishing November 2009 232 pages Includes 5 b&w illustrations Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-6198-6 Rachel Farebrother, Lecturer in American Studies University of Swansea Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility…

  • The Measure of America: How a rebel anthropologist waged war on racism The New Yorker 2004-03-08 18 pages Claudia Roth Peierpont Along with the Ferris wheel, the hamburger, Cracker Jack, Aunt Jemima, the zipper, Juicy Fruit, and the vertical file, the word “anthropology” was introduced to a vast number of Americans at the World’s Columbian…

  • Science: Environmentalist Time Magazine 1936-05-11 In Washington last week one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists told the National Academy of Sciences about an Englishman who was raised in Italy and married a Jewess. In consequence this Englishman’s gestures gradually became half Italian, half Jewish. Anthropology is neither an old science like mathematics, astronomy and…

  • Race-mixing and science in the United States Endeavour Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2003) pages 166-170 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2003.08.007 Paul Farber, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Oregon State University Scientific racism was widely used as a justification to oppose race-mixing in the United States. Historians have justly criticized this abuse of science, but have overlooked some…

  • The Idea Of Race Hackett Publishing Company 2000 256 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-87220-459-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-459-1 Paper ISBN: 0-87220-458-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-458-4 Edited by Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University Tommy L. Lott, Professor of Philosophy San José State University A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this…