Vernon J Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 663292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vernon J Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vernon J |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS V J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve
Daniel Matlin. On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis
Journal Article Daniel Matlin. On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis. Get access Daniel Matlin. On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. 350. $39.95. Vernon J. Williams, Jr. Vernon J. Williams, Jr. Indiana University Bloomington [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Hist…
Fatalism: Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology and the IQ Controversy
An Inclusive History of Sociology
African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision
The first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. Black Greek letter organizations were also created to foster a sense of community among African American students on college campuses, and among their ranks are legendary…
Jerry Gershenhorn, Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge
African‐American Pioneers in Anthropology
African‐American Pioneers in Anthropology. Ira E. Harrison and Faye V. Harrison (eds.).Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999. [vi]. 296pp. (Cloth USS49.95; Paper USS21.95
Between universalism and particularism: Historiographical concerns in the history of anthropology
A Gifted Amateur: The Case of George Washington Ellis
George Washington Ellis published Negro Culture in West Africa in 1914 in response to the social gospel prophets' racist and stereotypical perspectives of West Africa and Africans. In so doing. Ellis attempted to shift the discourse from one that emphasized African barbarism to one that repudiated the idea of African inferiority. Unwittingly, however, Ellis preached a brand of romantic racialism-a benign doctrine that was commonplace in the racia…
Natural Hierarchies: The Historical Sociology of Race and Caste
Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro
Journal Article Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro. By John David Smith. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xxviii, 386 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2130-3.) 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 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 667–668, https://…
Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History
Afrocentrism and its history has long been disputed and controversial. In this important book, Wilson Moses presents a critical and nuanced view of the issues. Tracing the origins of Afrocentrism since the eighteenth century, he examines the combination of various popular mythologies, some of them mystical and sentimental, others perfectly reasonable. This is a rich history of black intellectual life and the concept of race
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, …
Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries
Black Intellectuals, Black Cognition, and a Black Aesthetic
Journal Article Black Intellectuals, Black Cognition, and a Black Aesthetic. By W. D. Wright. (Westport: Praeger, 1997. xvi, 201 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-275-95542-7.) 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 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 748–749, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567890 P…
How Long Has This Been Going On: A Reflection
Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries
Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries
Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Amidst the violent racism prevalent at the turn of the twentieth century, African American cultural elites, struggling to articulate a positive black identity, developed a middle-class ideology of racial uplift. Insisting that they were truly representative of the race's potential, black elites espoused an ethos of self-help and service to the black masses and distinguished themselves from the black majority as agents of civilization; hence the p…
Lifting the Veil: A Political History of Struggles for Emancipation
Richard A. Couto sheds new light on the history of the civil rights movement by rooting it in the events of one place, Haywood County, Tennessee, and in the lives of four generations of African Americans who lived there, from Reconstruction to the present. Despite the modest coverage of Haywood County in other studies, few places express the issues of the civil rights movement in the rural South more clearly. Typical of most southern rural areas,…
Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview
IntroductionSome Theoretical ConsiderationsThe Etymology of the Term Race in the English LanguageAntecedents of the Racial WorldviewThe Growth of the English Ideology about Human Differences in AmericaThe Arrival of Africans and Descent into SlaveryComparing Slave Systems: The Significance of Racial ServitudeThe Rise of Science: Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Classifications of Human DiversityLate Eighteenth-Century Thought and Crystallization …
A History of Race Relations Social Science
This essay argues that the inclusion of white women, African Americans, Asian Americans, and American Indians into historiography is a fairly recent development ; and that the aforementioned development, which did not begin until the 1960s, has resulted in rigorous investigation into the racial thought of Franz Uri Boas, Robert Ezra Park, and Gunnar Myrdal and a hot debate in reference to their significance and influence on today's social science…
The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars
This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to cultural factors. Professor Barkan considers the social significance of this transformation, particularly its effect on race relations in the modern world. Discussing the work of the leading biologists and anthropologists…
Franz Boas ‐ Social Activist: The Dynamics of Ethnicity
Franz Boas—Social Activist: The Dynamics of Ethnicity. Marshall Hyatt. Contributions to the Study of Anthropology, Number 6. New York:Greenwood Press, 1990. xxii. 174 pp
African‐American Pioneers in Anthropology
African‐American Pioneers in Anthropology. Ira E. Harrison and Faye V. Harrison (eds.).Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999. [vi]. 296pp. (Cloth USS49.95; Paper USS21.95
A Gifted Amateur: The Case of George Washington Ellis
George Washington Ellis published Negro Culture in West Africa in 1914 in response to the social gospel prophets' racist and stereotypical perspectives of West Africa and Africans. In so doing. Ellis attempted to shift the discourse from one that emphasized African barbarism to one that repudiated the idea of African inferiority. Unwittingly, however, Ellis preached a brand of romantic racialism-a benign doctrine that was commonplace in the racia…
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, …
From a Caste to a Minority: Changing Attitudes of American Sociologists Toward Afro-Americans, 1896-1945
Between universalism and particularism: Historiographical concerns in the history of anthropology
Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries
From a Caste to a Minority: Changing Attitudes of American Sociologists Toward Afro-Americans, 1896-1945
Journal Article From a Caste to a Minority: Changing Attitudes of American Sociologists Toward Afro-Americans, 1896–1943. By Vernon J. Williams, Jr. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xii + 202 pp. $39.95.) Get access Roland F. Wacker Roland F. Wacker Wayne State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 717, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079303 Pu…
From a Caste to a Minority: Changing Attitudes of American Sociologists Toward Afro-Americans, 1896-1945
From a Caste to a Minority. Attitudes of American Sociologists toward Afro-Americans, 1896-1945
Franz Boas ‐ Social Activist: The Dynamics of Ethnicity
Franz Boas—Social Activist: The Dynamics of Ethnicity. Marshall Hyatt. Contributions to the Study of Anthropology, Number 6. New York:Greenwood Press, 1990. xxii. 174 pp
From a Caste to a Minority: Changing Attitudes of American Sociologists Toward Afro-Americans, 1896-1945. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies
The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars
This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to cultural factors. Professor Barkan considers the social significance of this transformation, particularly its effect on race relations in the modern world. Discussing the work of the leading biologists and anthropologists…
Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview
IntroductionSome Theoretical ConsiderationsThe Etymology of the Term Race in the English LanguageAntecedents of the Racial WorldviewThe Growth of the English Ideology about Human Differences in AmericaThe Arrival of Africans and Descent into SlaveryComparing Slave Systems: The Significance of Racial ServitudeThe Rise of Science: Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Classifications of Human DiversityLate Eighteenth-Century Thought and Crystallization …
A History of Race Relations Social Science
This essay argues that the inclusion of white women, African Americans, Asian Americans, and American Indians into historiography is a fairly recent development ; and that the aforementioned development, which did not begin until the 1960s, has resulted in rigorous investigation into the racial thought of Franz Uri Boas, Robert Ezra Park, and Gunnar Myrdal and a hot debate in reference to their significance and influence on today's social science…
Lifting the Veil: A Political History of Struggles for Emancipation
Richard A. Couto sheds new light on the history of the civil rights movement by rooting it in the events of one place, Haywood County, Tennessee, and in the lives of four generations of African Americans who lived there, from Reconstruction to the present. Despite the modest coverage of Haywood County in other studies, few places express the issues of the civil rights movement in the rural South more clearly. Typical of most southern rural areas,…
Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries
Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries
Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Amidst the violent racism prevalent at the turn of the twentieth century, African American cultural elites, struggling to articulate a positive black identity, developed a middle-class ideology of racial uplift. Insisting that they were truly representative of the race's potential, black elites espoused an ethos of self-help and service to the black masses and distinguished themselves from the black majority as agents of civilization; hence the p…
Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries
Black Intellectuals, Black Cognition, and a Black Aesthetic
Journal Article Black Intellectuals, Black Cognition, and a Black Aesthetic. By W. D. Wright. (Westport: Praeger, 1997. xvi, 201 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-275-95542-7.) 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 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 748–749, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567890 P…
How Long Has This Been Going On: A Reflection
Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History
Afrocentrism and its history has long been disputed and controversial. In this important book, Wilson Moses presents a critical and nuanced view of the issues. Tracing the origins of Afrocentrism since the eighteenth century, he examines the combination of various popular mythologies, some of them mystical and sentimental, others perfectly reasonable. This is a rich history of black intellectual life and the concept of race
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, …
Natural Hierarchies: The Historical Sociology of Race and Caste
Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro
Journal Article Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro. By John David Smith. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xxviii, 386 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2130-3.) 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 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 667–668, https://…
A Gifted Amateur: The Case of George Washington Ellis
George Washington Ellis published Negro Culture in West Africa in 1914 in response to the social gospel prophets' racist and stereotypical perspectives of West Africa and Africans. In so doing. Ellis attempted to shift the discourse from one that emphasized African barbarism to one that repudiated the idea of African inferiority. Unwittingly, however, Ellis preached a brand of romantic racialism-a benign doctrine that was commonplace in the racia…
African‐American Pioneers in Anthropology
African‐American Pioneers in Anthropology. Ira E. Harrison and Faye V. Harrison (eds.).Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999. [vi]. 296pp. (Cloth USS49.95; Paper USS21.95
Between universalism and particularism: Historiographical concerns in the history of anthropology
Jerry Gershenhorn, Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge
An Inclusive History of Sociology
Sociology (25 works) · Gender Studies (19 works) · History (16 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · History (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Race, History, and American Society (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Race (biology (10 works) · Art (8 works)