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Books

  1. L.D. Baker, Editor. Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience. Blackwell Publishing, 2004. [book.asp]  [abs]
  2. L.D. Baker. From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954. University of California Press, 1998. [html]  [abs]

Published Articles

  1. L. Baker. ""Anthropology, History of."." Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Edited by John Hartwell Moore.  vol. 1 ( 2008.): 93-97. [pdf]
  2. L. Baker. "Boas, Franz." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Edited by William A. Darity, Jr...  vol. 1 ( 2007.): 344-346. [pdf]
  3. L.D. Baker. "Mad or Meditative in Maricopa." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 14 no. 2 (October, 2006.): 129-131. [pdf]
  4. L.D. Baker. "Thinking Through Genre." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 14 no. 1 (April, 2006.): 1. [pdf]
  5. L.D. Baker. "2005 Taking the Plunge and Seizing the Time- -Again." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 13 no. 2 ( 2005.): 75-78. [pdf]
  6. L.D. Baker. "2005 Naming Moments Properly.." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 13 no. 1 ( 2005.): 1-2. [pdf]
  7. L.D. Baker. "Rethinking Black Studies: You Can't Do That With Out Organization." Souls A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society  vol. 6 no. (3/4) (November, 2004.): 36-40. [pdf]
  8. L.D. Baker. "Message from the President." North American Dialogue  vol. 7 no. 2 ( 2004.): 4. [pdf]
  9. L.D. Baker. "Franz Boas out of the Ivory Tower." Anthropological Theory  vol. 4 no. 1 (2004.): 29-51. [pdf]
  10. L.D. Baker. "A Model Approach for Studying Race: Provocative Theory, Sound Science, and Very Good History.." American Anthropologist  vol. 106 no. 1 ( 2004.): 168-172. [pdf]
  11. L.D. Baker. "Message from the President." North American Dialogue  vol. 7 no. 1 ( 2004.): 8-9. [pdf]
  12. L.D. Baker. "Research, Reform, and Racial Uplift: The Mission of the Hampton Folklore Society 1893-1899." History of Anthropology  vol. 9 ( 2002.): 42-80. [pdf]
  13. L.D. Baker. "Response to 'Philosophical Aspects of the "AAA Statement on 'Race' "." Anthropological Theory  vol. 1 no. 4 ( 2001.): 467-471. [pdf]  [abs]
  14. L.D. Baker. "Profit, Power, and Privilege: The Racial Politics of Ancestry." Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society  vol. 3 no. 4 ( 2001.): 66-72. [pdf]  [abs]
  15. L.D. Baker. "Daniel G. Brinton's Success on the Road to Obscurity, 1890-99." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 15 no. 3 ( 2000.): 394-423. [pdf]
  16. L.D. Baker. "Columbia University's Franz Boas: He Led the Undoing of Scientific Racism." Journal of Blacks in Higher Education  vol. 22 no. Winter ( 1999.): 89-96. [pdf]  [abs]
  17. L.D. Baker. "Unraveling the Boasian Discourse: The Racial Politics of "Culture" in School Desegregation, 1944-1954.." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 7 no. 1 ( 1998.): 15-32. [pdf]  [abs]
  18. L.D. Baker. "Racism in Professional Settings: Forms of Address as Clues to Power Relations." Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences  vol. 31 no. 2 ( 1995.): 186-201. [pdf]
  19. L.D. Baker & T.C. Patterson. "Race, Racism, and the History of U.S. Anthropology." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 5 no. 1 ( 1994.): 1-7. [pdf]  [abs]

Articles & Book Chapters

  1. L. Baker. "Signing Off." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 15 no. 2 ( 2007.): 95-96. [pdf]

Book Chapters

  1. L.D. Baker. "Missionary Positions.." Globalization and RaceTransformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness.. Edited by Kamari M. Clarke, and Deborah A. Thomas, eds..  ( 2006.): Pp. 37-54.. [pdf]
  2. L.D. Baker. "Frederic Ward Putnam." Celebrating a Century of the American Anthropological Assocaition: Presidential Portraits. Edited by Regna Darnell and Frederick W. Gleach.  ( 2002.): 5-9.
  3. L.D. Baker. "The Color Blind Bind." Cultural Diversity in the United States. Edited by Ida Susser and Thomas C. Patterson.  ( 2001.): 103-19. [pdf]
  4. L.D. Baker. "Afrocentricty and the American Dream." Dispatches From the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience. Edited by Manning Marable.  ( 2000.): 224-35. [pdf]
  5. L.D. Baker. "Racism in Professional Settings: Forms of Address as Clues to Power Relations." Race & Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture. Edited by Arthur K. Spears.  ( 1999.): 115-132.

Mass Media

  1. L. Baker. "W.G. Pearson’s Uniforms about Distinction." Durham Herald Sun  vol. Nov no. 21 ( 2007.): A22. [pdf]
  2. L.D. Baker. "2006 Defining Crime, The State of Things, WUNC National Public Radio July 29."   (July 29, 2006.). [view]
  3. L.D. Baker. "Hate Crime, Plain and Simple." Durham Herald Sun  (June 19, 2006.): A6. [html]
  4. L.D. Baker. "2006 Black Faculty at Duke, The State of Things, WUNC National Public Radio June 15."   (June 15, 2006.). [view]
  5. L.D. Baker. "The Real Massacre ain't 50s." Pop and Politics  (April 13, 2005.). [articles_detail.cfm]

Book Reviews

  1. L.D. Baker. "Review of Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge by Jerry Gershenhorn.." American Anthropologist  vol. 107 no. 3 ( 2005.): 524-525. [pdf]
  2. L.D. Baker. "Racism: A Short History by George M. Fredrickson." New West Indian Guide  vol. 78 no. 1&2 (Fall, 2004.): 125-126. [pdf]
  3. L.D. Baker. "Review of Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. George W. Stocking, Jr.." Journal of Anthropological Research  vol. 59 ( 2003.): 252-253. [pdf]  [abs]
  4. L.D. Baker. "Review of African-American Pioneers in Anthropology, edited Faye V. Harrison and Ira E. Harrison." American Anthropologist  vol. 102 no. 2 ( 2000.): 368-370. [pdf]  [abs]
  5. L.D. Baker. "Review of The Roots of African American Identity: Memory and History in Free Antebellum Communities, by Elizabeth Rauh Bethel." Social Forces  vol. 78 no. 1 ( 1999.): 372-374. [pdf]  [abs]
  6. L.D. Baker. "Review of Rethinking Race: Franz Boaz and His Contemporaries, by Vernon J. Williams, Jr.." American Journal of Sociology  vol. 102 no. 3 ( 1996.): 909-910. [html]  [abs]

Other

  1. L.D. Baker. "Transforming Anthropology."   vol. 15 no. 2 (October, 2007.).
  2. L. Baker. "Transforming Anthropology."   vol. 15 no. 1 (April, 2007.).
  3. L.D. Baker. "Transforming Anthropology."   vol. 14 no. 2 (October, 2006.).
  4. L.D. Baker. "Transforming Anthropology."   vol. 14 no. 1 (April, 2006.).
  5. L.D. Baker. "Transforming Anthroplogy."   vol. 13 no. 2 (October, 2005.).
  6. L.D. Baker. "Transforming Anthroplogy."   vol. 13 no. 1 (April, 2005.).
  7. L.D. Baker. "Affirmative Action and Anthropological Research." Anthropology News  vol. 44 no. 7 ( 2003.): 8. [htm]  [abs]

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