John W. Burgess, the racial state and the making of the American science of politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2146407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica Blatt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1062-1079 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2012.730623 |
| OpenAlex | W2041959950 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article examines the place of racial ideas in the constitution of political science as an academic discipline in the USA. For the Gilded Age generation that built the first PhD-granting departments in political science in the country, 'race' was the source of sovereignty, the basis of democratic legitimacy and a tool for delineating democracy's borders. It was also an important element of that cohort's aspiration to a 'science' of politics, distinct from what they viewed as the 'abstract and formal' theorizing of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Moreover, while the brand of racialism that characterized this founding moment came to seem outmoded within a few decades, in the 1920s political scientists seeking once again to claim an empirical, scientific basis for their discipline - and for American democracy - turned to new accounts and sciences of race
Constitution · Democracy · Element (criminal law · Gilded Age · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Politics of the United States · Race (biology · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · Law · Political Science Research and Education · Political Theory and Influence
The Search for American Political Development
Race, culture, and evolution
Why Political Scientists Don't Study Black Politics, But Historians and Sociologists Do
The Origins of American Social Science
Defending the Master Race
The Political Discourse of Anarchy
Are We a Nation?”
Political Science and the American Empire
Disenchanted Realists
Contested Truths
Disenchanted Realists
The Science and Politics of Racial Research
The American Science of Politics
The Measure of Merit
The American Science of Politics
Reports of the Second National Conference on the Science of Politics
Imagining the American polity
The Puzzling Place of Race in American Political Science
The Ideal of the American Commonwealth
The making of the modern university
Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted
Negro Suffrage
The Romance of Culture in an Urban Civilization
To bring out the best that is in their blood
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |