Race and the making of American political science

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

"Race and the Making of American Political Science shows that changing scientific ideas about racial difference were central to the academic study of politics as it emerged in the United States. From the late nineteenth century through the 1930s, scholars of politics defined and continually reo...

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Main Author: Blatt, Jessica, 1970- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Series:American governance.
Subjects:
Political science > United States > History.
Race.
Political science > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States > History.
Racism > United States > History.
race (group of people)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Political science
Political science > Study and teaching (Higher)
Race
Racism
United States
History
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Table of 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.

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