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Article: Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries.(Review)
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- March 22, 1999
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Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries. By Vernon J. Williams Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Pp. ix, 152. $34.95.)
Historian Vernon J. Williams Jr. has written a little book about a big subject the historical and continuing influence of race and race-relations theories of the famous anthropologist, Franz Boas. Rethinking Race begins with an examination of what the author describes as the fundamental paradox in Boas's racial thought, which was rooted in his early acceptance of certain "Social Darwinian" notions about African American racial "inferiority" while embracing the new research of twentieth-century cultural anthropology. ...
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...In recent years, Boas has resurfaced as a source of inspiration ... 2) Is this a credible reading of Boas, or a re-invention to suit new clothes ... substantiate. I do not wish to interpret Boas in the manner of historians, however ...
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