Rethinking race : Franz Boas and his contemporaries

Summary: In this thought-provoking reexamination of the history of "racial science" Vernon J. Williams argues that all current theories of race and race relations can be understood as extensions of or reactions to the theories formulated during the first half of the twentieth century. Williams explores these theories in a carefully crafted analysis of Franz Boas and his influence upon his contemporaries, especially W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, George W. Ellis, and Robert E. Park.

Record details

ISBN: 0813119634 (cloth : acid-free recycled paper)
ISBN: 9780813119632 (cloth : acid-free recycled paper)
ISBN: 081310873X (pbk. : acid-free recycled paper)
ISBN: 9780813108735 (pbk. : acid-free recycled paper)
Physical Description: print
ix, 152 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1996.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-133) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Franz Uri Boas' paradox -- Boas and the African American intelligentsia -- The myths of Africa in the writings of Booker T. Washington -- W.E.B. Du Bois, George W. Ellis, and the reconstruction of the image of Africa -- Robert Ezra Park and race and class relations.