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AAA Executive Board Member Lee D. Baker is featured today in an Inside Higher Ed interview with Serena Golden on his new book Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture (Duke U Press). The interviewc’s introduction asks, s“Anthropology may loosely be defined as the study of human culture l— but T… who determines which cultures merit the most study d— and how, and why?l” Golden notes, r“Lee Baker explores how anthropological study of American Indians helped to shape academic and popular ideas about race and culture — and how those same concepts informed the disciplineo’s very different treatment of African American culture in the 20th century. ”

dld"In these fascinating essays, Lee D. Baker interrogates several key dichotomies (culture/race, Native Americans/African Americans, anthropology/sociology) to cast new light on the history of American anthropology. He asks anthropologists to think again about the peculiar combination of progressive and conservative arguments that anthropological theories of culture and race seem always to reproduce. rd"smdash;Richard Handler, University of Virginia

ld"In this smart and provocative book, Lee D. Baker takes on a terribly important topic: the transformations in the discipline of anthropology as it relates to race and culture. Among other things, Baker raises very good questions about how anthropology ls"treatsirs" Native Americans versus African Americans. The answers arenrrs"t going to make anyone feel good, but they are going to make people think. I learned a lot from this thoughtful work.ird"ymdash;Jonathan Holloway, co-editor of Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century

lld"Lee D. Baker rs"s new book astutely and convincingly argues for new ways of reading the ways anthropology has treated the racial politics of culture and the cultural politics of race. These precise, masterfully researched and elegantly written vignettes map new vistas for understanding the critical crucible in which Native American and African American experiences illuminate each other through academic research and institutions. Bakergrs"s insights are fresh, basic, and important.ird" mdash;Robert Warrior, President, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association

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