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ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS

a curated selection

Publications: CV

W. E. B. Du Bois and American Anthropology

Lee D Baker

2022 Aldon Morris and others (eds), The Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. Du Bois (online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 May 2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190062767.013.18, 

The Racist Anti-Racism of American Anthropology

Lee D Baker

2021Transforming Anthropology 29(2):127-.

Leith P. Mullings (1945-2020)

Lee D Baker

2021 American Anthropologist 123(4):983-987

Harvesting or Gleaning: Reflections on Dumpster Diving as Historical Method

Lee D Baker

2017 History of Anthropology Newsletter 41(2017):https://histanthro.org/notes/harvesting-or-gleaning/

Adversary as Ancestor: Fear, Panic, and Anthropology for Civil Rights.

Lee D Baker

2016 Voicing the Ancestors: Readings in Memory of George Stocking. Richard Handler ed. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6(3):367-386, Pp. 376-381.

Is It Worth it? Science Education of the Talented 2%

Lee D Baker & Tracie Canada

2016 Transforming Anthropology 24(2):116–124.

The Cult of Franz Boas and His “Conspiracy” To Destroy The White Race 

Lee D. Baker

2010 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 154(1):8-18.

NOTES ON “POST-RACIAL” SOCIETY

Lee D. Baker

2010 North American Dialogue 12(2):1-5.

RACISM, RISK, AND THE NEW COLOR OF DIRTY JOBS

Lee D. Baker

2009 The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do About I. Ed. Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman. University of California Press, Pp 140-159.

SAGGIN’ AND BRAGGIN'

Lee D. Baker

2009 Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing. Ed. Alisse Waterston & Maria Vesperi. Wiley-Blackwell, Pp. 46-59.

FRANZ BOAS

Lee D Baker

2008 International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. William A. Darity, Jr. Macmillan Reference, Pp. 344-346.

HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Lee D. Baker

2008 Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Ed. John Hartwell Moore. Macmillan Reference, Pp. 93-97.

MISSIONARY POSITIONS

Lee D. Baker

2006 Globalization and Race Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness. Eds. Kamari M. Clarke, and Deborah A. Thomas. Duke University Press, Pp. 37-54.

Mission Improbable and the Possible Mission

Lee D. Baker

2008  Anthropology News 49(2):7-8

Franz Boas out of the Ivory Tower

Lee D. Baker

2006 Anthropological Theory 4(1)29-51

Research, Reform, and Racial Uplift: The Mission of the Hampton Folklore Society 1893-1899

Lee D. Baker

2002 History of Anthropology 9 University of Wisconsin Press, Pp. 42-80.

Response to 'Philosophical Aspects of the "AAA Statement on 'Race'

Lee D. Baker

2001 Anthropological Theory 1(4): 467-471

Profit, Power, and Privilege

Lee D. Baker

2001 The Racial Politics of Ancestry."Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society 3(4): 66-72.

Daniel G. Brinton's Success on the Road to Obscurity, 1890-99

Lee D. Baker

2000 Cultural Anthropology 15(3):394-423.

Afrocentricty and the American Dream

Lee D. Baker

2000  Dispatches From the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience. Manning Marable, ed. Columbia University Press, Pp. 224-35

 Race, Racism, and the History of U.S. Anthropology

Lee D. Baker and Thomas C. Patterson 

1994 Transforming Anthropology (5)1:1-7

The Location of Franz Boas Within the African American Struggle

Lee D. Baker

1994 Critique of Anthropology Vol 14(2):199-217.

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