THE SOCIAL SCIENCES & THEORIES OF RACE - Softcover

Williams Jr., Vernon J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252073207 ISBN 13: 9780252073205

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2006

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252073207
• ISBN 13: 9780252073205
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168