Rethinking race : Franz Boas and his contemporaries

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Vernon J., Jr., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.) ill

Other Title:

Rethinking Race

Summary:

In this thought-provoking reexamination of the history of ""racial science"" Vernon J. Williams argues that all current theories of race and race relations can be understood as extensions of or reactions to the theories formulated during the first half of the twentieth century. Williams explores these theories in a carefully crafted analysis of Franz Boas and his influence upon his contemporaries, especially W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, George W. Ellis, and Robert E. Park. Historians hav

ISBN:

0-8131-7101-6