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"At the end of the 19th century, everyone knew that people were defined by their race and sex and were fated by birth and biology to be more or less intelligent, able, nurturing, or warlike. But one rogue researcher looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Franz Boas was the very image of a mad scientist: a wild-haired immigrant with a thick German accent. By the 1920s he was also the foundational thinker and public face of a new school of thought at Columbia University called cultural anthropology. He proposed that cultures did not exist on a continuum from primitive to advanced. Instead, every society solves the same basic problems -- from childrearing to how to live well -- with its own set of rules, beliefs, and taboos. Boas's students were some of the century's intellectual stars: Margaret Mead, the outspoken field researcher whose Coming of Age in Samoa is one of the most widely read works of social science of all time; Ruth Benedict, the great love of Mead's life, whose research shaped post-Second World War Japan; Ella Deloria, the Dakota Sioux activist who preserved the traditions of Native Americans of the Great Plains; and Zora Neale Hurston, whose studies under Boas fed directly into her now-classic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Together, they mapped vanishing civilizations from the Arctic to the South Pacific and overturned the relationship between biology and behavior. Their work reshaped how we think of women and men, normalcy and deviance, and re-created our place in a world of many cultures and value systems. Gods of the Upper Air is a page-turning narrative of radical ideas and adventurous lives, a history rich in scandal, romance, and rivalry, and a genesis story of the fluid conceptions of identity that define our present moment"--
Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Anthropologists --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Study and teaching --- History --- Boas, Franz, --- Influence. --- Hurston, Zora Neale --- Benedict, Ruth --- Deloria, Ella --- Mead, Margaret --- Race --- Gender --- Sexuality --- Science --- Book --- Anthropology
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"Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines' research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, and others, and by the mid-twentieth century, education itself became a center in the struggle for social justice. Insurgency discredited some of the most odious intellectual defenses of white supremacy, but the disciplines and their keepers remained unwilling to interrogate many of the racist foundations of their fields in favor of racial colorblindness. This book challenges scholars and students to see race again. Examining the racial histories and colorblindness in fields as diverse as social psychology, the law, musicology, literary studies, sociology, and gender studies, Seeing Race Again documents the profoundly contradictory role of the academy in constructing, naturalizing, and reproducing racial hierarchy. It shows how colorblindness compromises the capacity of disciplines to effectively respond to the wide set of contemporary political, economic, and social crises marking public life today"--Provided by publisher.
Racism in higher education --- Multicultural education --- Post-racialism --- Race discrimination --- United States --- Race relations. --- Race question --- Color blindness (Race relations) --- Colorblindness (Race relations) --- Post-racial society --- Postracialism --- Race blindness --- Race relations --- Education, Higher --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- 20th century. --- academic discipline. --- academy. --- carter g woodson. --- colonialism. --- education. --- gender studies. --- insurgent efforts. --- law. --- literary studies. --- musicology. --- origin story. --- racial colorblindness. --- racial hierarchy. --- racial histories. --- racist foundations. --- rising opposition. --- scholars. --- social justice. --- social psychology. --- sociology. --- teaching paradigms. --- w e b du bois. --- white supremacy. --- zora meale hurston. --- United States of America --- Race --- History --- Racism --- Legal theory --- Sociology --- Theory --- Academic sector --- Book --- Intersectionality
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