An analysis of how anthropology has historically viewed African Americans and Native Americans differently.

Preface: Questions ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Research, Reform, and Racial Uplift 33
2. Fabricating the Authentic and the Politics of the Real 66
3. Race, Relevance, and Daniel G. Brinton's Ill-fated Bid for Prominence 117
4. The Cult of Franz Boas and His "Conspiracy" to Destroy the White Race 156
Notes 221
Works Cited 235
Index 265

Lee D. Baker is Dean of Academic Affairs in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, and African and African American Studies at Duke University. He is the author of From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896–1954 and the editor of Life in America: Identity in Everyday Experience.