L D Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 14723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L D Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | L D |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER L D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0430-3354 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Gamble and the Game: Reflections on Writing From Savage to Negro
The Racist Anti‐Racism of American Anthropology
In 1909 Franz Boas conducted a massive study entitled Changes in Bodily Forms of Descendants of Immigrants. In this study, he demonstrated that Eastern and Southern European immigrants to the United States were not racially different from other Europeans because of what he called “the marvelous power of amalgamation.” Boas’s study dealt a blow to scientific racism because he demonstrated the plasticity and instability of racial types. Boas chose …
Boas, Franz (1858–1942)
During the first half of the twentieth century, Franz Boas contributed to a profound paradigm shift in the social sciences: the understanding that cultures are distinctive, dynamic, and fluid and there is no biological basis to explain extant racial categories. Boas greatest contribution to both science and society was the way he used empirical evidence and the scientific method to challenge ideas of racial superiority and inferiority by designin…
From the President
Voicing the ancestors: Readings in memory of George Stocking
In this Forum, four anthropologists have chosen an "ancestral" figure to give voice to. Anthropologists' ancestors are generally teachers, mentors, or, less proximally, canonized scholars of prior generations. Anthropologists draw on their ancestors for theoretical wisdom and practical guidance. Yet ancestors are not always shared broadly across our discipline, and they can easily fall into oblivion. Giving voice to them, publicly, allows each co…
Is it Worth it? Science Education of the Talented 2
This essay critiques mismatch theory in science education, a theory supported by opponents of affirmative action who strive to derail efforts to diversify institutions of higher education. Can high-achieving students survive and thrive in an academic environment dominated by their super high-achieving peers? Our research suggests that while there are a variety of nuanced factors that impact an undergraduate's success in certain majors, students o…
Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture
Notes on “Post‐Racial” Society (plenary session, Sana/ABA conference, 2010)
Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture
In the late nineteenth century, if ethnologists in the United States recognized African American culture, they often perceived it as something to be overcome and left behind. At the same time, they were committed to salvaging “disappearing” Native American culture by curating objects, narrating practices, and recording languages. In Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture, Lee D. Baker examines theories of race and culture developed by Am…
Seizing the Time: Transforming Anthropology at a Crossroads
Mission Improbable and the Possible Mission
The social sciences and theories of race - Vernon Williams
Signing Off
Association for Black Anthropologists
Missionary Positions
Mad or Meditative in Maricopa
Thinking Through Genre
Society for the Anthropology of North America
Naming Moments Properly
Taking the Plunge and Seizing the Time-Again
Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge
You Can't Do That Without Organization
A Model Approach for Studying Race: Provocative Theory, Sound Science, and Very Good History
The Problem of Race in the Twenty-First Century. Thomas C. Holt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. 146 pp. Race in Mind: Race, IQ, and Other Racisms. Alexander Alland Jr. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 219 pp. The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund. William H. Tucker. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. 286 pp
Franz Boas Out of the Ivory Tower
Although the idea that Franz Boas was a public intellectual is widely embraced, there is nothing written that specifically addresses the way he initially got pushed, pulled, or better yet, dragged into the public debates on race, racism, nationalism, and war - the issues for which he used anthropology in public arenas. In this article, I seek to accomplish three tasks: first, to highlight how Franz Boas and his work got pulled into the public are…
Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections . George W. Stocking, Jr
From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954
Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions— Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine established in 1896) and Brown v. Board of Education (the public school desegregation decision of 1954)—Baker shows how racial categories change over time. Bak…
The Location of Franz Boas within the African-American Struggle
L'A. etudie le role joue par Franz Boas dans la lutte pour l'egalite raciale entre 1887 et 1909. Des 1887 Boas combat le racisme scientifique, puis les theories de l'evolution sociale et il s'efforce de differencier la race de la culture et du langage. Dans les annees 1890, il est considere comme un allie par les leaders afro-americains dont Du Bois qui s'oppose a Washington. En 1909 le NAACP (National Association for the Avancement of Colored Pe…
Franz Boas Out of the Ivory Tower
Although the idea that Franz Boas was a public intellectual is widely embraced, there is nothing written that specifically addresses the way he initially got pushed, pulled, or better yet, dragged into the public debates on race, racism, nationalism, and war - the issues for which he used anthropology in public arenas. In this article, I seek to accomplish three tasks: first, to highlight how Franz Boas and his work got pulled into the public are…
Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge
Daniel G. Brinton's Success on the Road to Obscurity, 1890-99
From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954
Reflections in the National Mirror
Voicing the ancestors: Readings in memory of George Stocking
In this Forum, four anthropologists have chosen an "ancestral" figure to give voice to. Anthropologists' ancestors are generally teachers, mentors, or, less proximally, canonized scholars of prior generations. Anthropologists draw on their ancestors for theoretical wisdom and practical guidance. Yet ancestors are not always shared broadly across our discipline, and they can easily fall into oblivion. Giving voice to them, publicly, allows each co…
Profit, Power, and Privilege: The Racial Politics of Ancestry
From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954
From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896–1954. By Lee D. Baker. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii, 325 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-520-21167-7. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-520-21168-5.) Get access Vernon J. Williams, Jr. Vernon J. Williams, Jr. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, …
Columbia University's Franz Boas: He Led the Undoing of Scientific Racism
Editor's Note: Two hundred fifty years ago scholars in the West divided mankind into two categories. On the one hand there was the black man who was said to be subhuman and of lower intelligence and therefore a natural slave. Then there was the white man who uniquely possessed the glorious traits of Newton and Milton. Here is the story of Franz Boas, the Columbia University sociologist who was largely responsible for destroying the academic conse…
African-American Pioneers in Anthropology
African-American Pioneers in Anthropology. Ira E. Harrison and Faye V. Harrison. eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 296 pp
Unraveling the Boasian Discourse: The Racial Politics of "Culture" in School Desegregation, 1944-1954
Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries. Vernon J. Williams, Jr
Evaluation of a 'do-it-yourself' pregnancy test
Evaluation of a 'do-it-yourself' pregnancy test. L D Baker, L W Yert, M C Chase, and E DaleCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.2.166 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Evaluation of a 'do-it-yourself' pregnancy test
Evaluation of a 'do-it-yourself' pregnancy test. L D Baker, L W Yert, M C Chase, and E DaleCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.2.166 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Race, Racism, and the History of U.S. Anthropology
Savage Inequality: Anthropology in the Erosion of the Fifteenth Amendment
From Cannibal to Animal: Contextualizing the Image on the Cover
The Location of Franz Boas within the African-American Struggle
L'A. etudie le role joue par Franz Boas dans la lutte pour l'egalite raciale entre 1887 et 1909. Des 1887 Boas combat le racisme scientifique, puis les theories de l'evolution sociale et il s'efforce de differencier la race de la culture et du langage. Dans les annees 1890, il est considere comme un allie par les leaders afro-americains dont Du Bois qui s'oppose a Washington. En 1909 le NAACP (National Association for the Avancement of Colored Pe…
For whom the bell curve tolls: Power, money, and multiculturalism
Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries. Vernon J. Williams, Jr
Reflections in the National Mirror
From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954
Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions— Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine established in 1896) and Brown v. Board of Education (the public school desegregation decision of 1954)—Baker shows how racial categories change over time. Bak…
Columbia University's Franz Boas: He Led the Undoing of Scientific Racism
Editor's Note: Two hundred fifty years ago scholars in the West divided mankind into two categories. On the one hand there was the black man who was said to be subhuman and of lower intelligence and therefore a natural slave. Then there was the white man who uniquely possessed the glorious traits of Newton and Milton. Here is the story of Franz Boas, the Columbia University sociologist who was largely responsible for destroying the academic conse…
New Directions in the History of United States Anthropology
Unraveling the Boasian Discourse: The Racial Politics of "Culture" in School Desegregation, 1944-1954
From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954
Commitment to Scientific Truth
The Roots of African-American Identity: Memory and History in Free Antebellum Communities
From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954
From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954
From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896–1954. By Lee D. Baker. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii, 325 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-520-21167-7. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-520-21168-5.) Get access Vernon J. Williams, Jr. Vernon J. Williams, Jr. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, …
Daniel G. Brinton's Success on the Road to Obscurity, 1890-99
African-American Pioneers in Anthropology
African-American Pioneers in Anthropology. Ira E. Harrison and Faye V. Harrison. eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 296 pp
Response to ‘Philosophical Aspects of the “AAA Statement on ‘Race’”’
Profit, Power, and Privilege: The Racial Politics of Ancestry
Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections . George W. Stocking, Jr
Commentry: Affirmative Action and Anthropological Research
You Can't Do That Without Organization
A Model Approach for Studying Race: Provocative Theory, Sound Science, and Very Good History
The Problem of Race in the Twenty-First Century. Thomas C. Holt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. 146 pp. Race in Mind: Race, IQ, and Other Racisms. Alexander Alland Jr. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 219 pp. The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund. William H. Tucker. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. 286 pp
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