Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations ix Series Editors’ Introduction xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. The Making of an Anthropologist 11 2. The Attack on Pseudoscientific Racism 27 3. Transforming the Debate on Black Culture 59 4. Subverting the Myth of the Negro Past 93 5. Objectivity and the Development of Negro Studies 123 6. The Postwar Expansion of African Studies 169 7. Foreign Policy Critic 201 Epilogue 231 Notes 241 Bibliography 305 Index 329 Illustrations 1. Herman Herskovits following page 130 2. Franz Boas 3. Melville and Frances Herskovits 4. Herskovits with Suriname artifact 5. Carter G. Woodson 6. Board of Advisors of the Encyclopedia of the Negro project 7. Ralph Bunche 8. Gunnar Myrdal 9. E. Franklin Frazier 10. Herskovits at Northwestern University 11. Herskovits and J. Roscoe Miller with Liberian president William V. S. Tubman 12. Frances Herskovits ...