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Lee D. Baker, Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology of African & African American Studies and Sociology and Dean of Academic Affairs of Trinity College

Lee D. Baker
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Lee D. Baker
Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology of African & African American Studies and Sociology and Dean of Academic Affairs of Trinity College
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Office: 104 Social Sciences
Phone: +1 919 681 3263
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Areas of Interest: 
History of US Anthropology
race, racism, and democracy
politics of culture
US
Australia
 
Lee D. Baker received his Ph.D. from Temple University, and his research explores the history of anthropology and its role in the U.S. as the science of race and arbiter of culture. He is author of From Savage To Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954 (UC Press 1998); and Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience (Blackwell 204). Although his main research explores the history of anthropology in the U.S., he is also interested in the Aboriginal experience in Australia, and the African American experience in the U.S. 
  Selected Publications/Recent Research:
 
  • L. Baker, Boas, Franz, in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by William A. Darity, Jr.., vol. 1 (2008), pp. 344-346, Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA [pdf].
  • L. Baker, "Anthropology, History of.", in Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, edited by John Hartwell Moore, vol. 1 (2008), pp. 93-97, Macmillan Reference USA, [pdf].
  • L.D. Baker, Review of The Social Sciences and Theories of Race by Vernon J. Williams, Jr., Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 14 no. 1 (2008), pp. 234-235 [pdf].
  • L.D. Baker, Black Women in the Ivory Tower, Womanism, and Segregated Scholars, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Soceity, vol. 10 no. 2 (2008), pp. 179-187 [pdf].
  • L.D. Baker, Mission Improbable and the Possible Mission, Anthropology News, vol. 49 no. 2 (2008), pp. 7-8 [pdf].
 
  Course Descriptions


 
  • CULANTH 144.01, ANTHROPOLOGY OF RACE
 
   
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