Race and the making of American political science / Jessica Blatt.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Blatt, Jessica, 1970- author.

Contributor:

• DeGruyter Online.

Series:

• American governance
• American governance: politics, policy, and public law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Political science--United States--History.
• Political science.
• Political science--Study and teaching (Higher).
• History.
• United States.
• Race.
• Political science--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History.
• Racism--United States--History.
• Racism.

Genre:

• Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Race and the Making of American Political Science shows that racial thought was central to the academic study of politics in the United States at its origins, shaping the discipline's core categories and questions in fundamental and lasting ways.

Contents:

• "The white man's mission" : John W. Burgess and the Columbia School of Political Science
• "All things lawful are not expedient" : the American Political Science Association considers Jim Crow
• Twentieth-century problems : administering an American empire
• The Journal of Race Development : evolution and uplift
• Laying specters to rest : political science encounters the Boasian critique of racial anthropology
• Finding new premises : race science, philanthropy, and the institutional establishment of political science.

Notes:

• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 4, 2018).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780812294897
• 0812294890

OCLC:

1029759872

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.