Race and the Making of American Political Science

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Acknowledgments

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jessica Blatt is Associate Professor of Political Science at Marymount Manhattan College.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jessica Blatt
• Verlag: University of pennsylvania pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780812225099
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2509-9
• Seiten: 216
• Serien: American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law; American Governance: Politics,
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung