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Race and the Making of American Political Science.

Blatt, Jessica.

Race and the Making of American Political Science. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (214 pages) - American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law Series . - American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law Series .

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "The White Man's Mission": John W. Burgess and the Columbia School of Political Science -- Chapter 2. "All Things Lawful Are Not Expedient": The American Political Science Association Considers Jim Crow -- Chapter 3. Twentieth-Century Problems: Administering an American Empire -- Chapter 4. The Journal of Race Development: Evolution and Uplift -- Chapter 5. Laying Specters to Rest: Political Science Encounters the Boasian Critique of Racial Anthropology -- Chapter 6. Finding New Premises: Race Science, Philanthropy, and the Institutional Establishment of Political Science -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.

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.

9780812294897


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


Electronic books.

JA84.U5 .B49 2018

320.0973

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