Description
Historians have long recognized the monumental role Franz Boas played in eviscerating the racist worldview that prevailed in the American social sciences. Williams reconsiders the standard portrait of Boas and offers a new understanding of a man who never fully escaped the racist assumptions of 19th-century anthropology but nevertheless successfully argued that African Americans could assimiliate into American society and that the chief obstacle facing them was not heredity but the prejudice of white America.
Book Information
ISBN 9780813108735
Author Vernon J. Williams
Format Paperback
Page Count 168
Imprint The University Press of Kentucky
Publisher The University Press of Kentucky