Anthony Q Hazard
Biographic Data
| ID | 105044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Q Hazard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony Q |
| FAMILY NAME | Hazard |
| SIGNATURE | HAZARD A Q |
| AFFILIATIONS | Santa Clara University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Boasians at War
This volume seeks to recover a specific historical moment within the tradition of anthropologists trained in the United States under Franz Boas, arguably the father of modern American anthropology. Focusing on Boasians Ashley Montagu, Margaret Mead, Melville Herskovits, and Ruth Benedict, Anthony Hazard highlights the extent to which the Boasians offer historicized explanations of racism that move beyond a quest to reshape only the discipline: Bo…
Ashley Montagu
M ontagu, A shley
Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) today remains one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century. Spanning six decades, Montagu's anthropological career offered innovative challenges to the concept of race, and Montagu's scholarship addressed a number of pressing social issues that stood at the center of political debates in the United States. Montagu was a scientist and cultural critic who helped usher in a new era in the discipline o…
Ashley Montagu, the "Most Dangerous Myth," and the "Negro Question" during World War II
This article complicates the established historical narrative of Ashley Montagu's intellectual and implicitly political project by focusing on his concern for the civil and human rights of African Americans. Montagu's assault on the concept of race in the 1940s involved an equally trenchant critique of constructions of "the Negro" that has received very little attention. This essay explores Montagu's most famous publication, Man's Most Dangerous …
Wartime Anthropology, Nationalism, and "Race" in Margaret Mead'sAnd Keep Your Powder Dry
This article chronicles Margaret Mead’s contributions to the American war effort during the Second World War. In addition to the applied anthropology in which Mead engaged during the war, she also published a highly popular study of the “American character” titled And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America (New York: William Morrow, 1942). This telling book highlights the ways Mead contributed to the United States war effort by …
Postwar Anti-racism
This book explores the discourse and practice of anti-racism in the first two decades following World War II, uncovering the ways scientific and cultural discourses of 'race' continued to circulate in
A Racialized Deconstruction? Ashley Montagu and the 1950 Unesco Statement on Race
Scholars interested in the politics and conceptual history of race claim that the 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race represented the triumph of anti-racist science, heavily informed by Boasian anthropology and synthetic evolutionary theory, over the science that had defined social Darwinism, eugenics, and the Holocaust. This article begins to extend the intertwined history of African American politics and the history of anthropology into the second ha…
Ashley Montagu, the "Most Dangerous Myth," and the "Negro Question" during World War II
This article complicates the established historical narrative of Ashley Montagu's intellectual and implicitly political project by focusing on his concern for the civil and human rights of African Americans. Montagu's assault on the concept of race in the 1940s involved an equally trenchant critique of constructions of "the Negro" that has received very little attention. This essay explores Montagu's most famous publication, Man's Most Dangerous …
A Racialized Deconstruction? Ashley Montagu and the 1950 Unesco Statement on Race
Scholars interested in the politics and conceptual history of race claim that the 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race represented the triumph of anti-racist science, heavily informed by Boasian anthropology and synthetic evolutionary theory, over the science that had defined social Darwinism, eugenics, and the Holocaust. This article begins to extend the intertwined history of African American politics and the history of anthropology into the second ha…
Postwar Anti-racism
This book explores the discourse and practice of anti-racism in the first two decades following World War II, uncovering the ways scientific and cultural discourses of 'race' continued to circulate in
Wartime Anthropology, Nationalism, and "Race" in Margaret Mead'sAnd Keep Your Powder Dry
This article chronicles Margaret Mead’s contributions to the American war effort during the Second World War. In addition to the applied anthropology in which Mead engaged during the war, she also published a highly popular study of the “American character” titled And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America (New York: William Morrow, 1942). This telling book highlights the ways Mead contributed to the United States war effort by …
Ashley Montagu, the "Most Dangerous Myth," and the "Negro Question" during World War II
This article complicates the established historical narrative of Ashley Montagu's intellectual and implicitly political project by focusing on his concern for the civil and human rights of African Americans. Montagu's assault on the concept of race in the 1940s involved an equally trenchant critique of constructions of "the Negro" that has received very little attention. This essay explores Montagu's most famous publication, Man's Most Dangerous …
M ontagu, A shley
Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) today remains one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century. Spanning six decades, Montagu's anthropological career offered innovative challenges to the concept of race, and Montagu's scholarship addressed a number of pressing social issues that stood at the center of political debates in the United States. Montagu was a scientist and cultural critic who helped usher in a new era in the discipline o…
Boasians at War
This volume seeks to recover a specific historical moment within the tradition of anthropologists trained in the United States under Franz Boas, arguably the father of modern American anthropology. Focusing on Boasians Ashley Montagu, Margaret Mead, Melville Herskovits, and Ruth Benedict, Anthony Hazard highlights the extent to which the Boasians offer historicized explanations of racism that move beyond a quest to reshape only the discipline: Bo…
Ashley Montagu
Gender Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Race (biology) (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (4 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (3 works)