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Publications of Lee D. Baker    :chronological  alphabetical  by type  bibtex listing:

  1. Baker, LD. "The Gamble and the Game: Reflections on Writing From Savage to Negro." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 31 no. 2 (October, 2023.): 96-99. [doi]
  2. Baker, LD. "Franz Boas: the emergence of the anthropologist." JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE  vol. 28 no. 4 ( 2022.): 1396-1397.
  3. Baker, L. "W. E. B. Du Bois and American Anthropology." The Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. DoBois (Online Edition, 19 May 2022. Edited by Morris, A.  ( 2022.). [doi]
  4. Baker, LD. "The Racist Anti-Racism of American Anthropology." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 29 no. 2 (October, 2021.): 127-142. [doi]  [abs]
  5. Baker, LD. ":From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism, and American Anthropology. Mark Anderson. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. ix + 262 pp. (Cloth US$90, Paper $28.00, E‐Book $15.12)." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 28 no. 2 (October, 2020.): 184-185. [doi]
  6. Baker, LD. "From the President." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 27 no. 2 (October, 2019.): 80. [doi]
  7. Baker, LD. "Truth's Fool: Derek Freeman and the War over Cultural Anthropology by Peter Hempenstall Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. 321 pp.." American Anthropologist  vol. 120 no. 3 (September, 2018.): 621-622. [doi]
  8. Baker, LD; Canada, T. "Is it Worth it? Science Education of the Talented 2%." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 24 no. 2 (October, 2016.): 116-124. [doi]  [abs]
  9. Handler, R; Bashkow, I; Solway, J; Baker, LD; Schrempp, G. "Voicing the ancestors: Readings in memory of George Stocking." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory  vol. 6 no. 3 (January, 2016.): 367-386. [doi]  [abs]
  10. Baker, LD. "Seizing the time: Transforming anthropology at a crossroads." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 18 no. 2 (October, 2010.): 116-119. [doi]
  11. Baker, LD. "Meet Lee Baker, The State of Things, WUNC National Public Radio."   (April, 2010.).
  12. Baker, LD. "The cult of Franz Boas and his "conspiracy" to destroy the white race.." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society  vol. 154 no. 1 (March, 2010.): 8-18. [20695237]
  13. Baker, LD. "Franz Boas and his “Conspiracy” to Destroy the White Race." American Philosophical Society Proceedings  vol. 154 no. 1 ( 2010.): 8-18.  [abs]
  14. Baker, LD. Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture. Duke University Press, 2010.
  15. Baker, LD. "Notes on “Post-Racial” Society." North American Dialogue  vol. 13 no. 2 ( 2010.): 1-5. (plenary session, SANA/ABA Conference, 2010)
  16. Baker, LD. "Racism, risk, and the new color of dirty jobs." The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do about It. Edited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman.  (November, 2009.): 140-159. [pdf]  [abs]
  17. Baker, LD. "Saggin’ and Braggin’." Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing. Edited by Waterston, A; Vesperi, M.  ( 2009.): 46-59. [ldbaker/documents/baker40.pdf], [doi]  [abs]
  18. Baker, LD. "The Location of Franz Boas within the African-American Struggle [reprint]." Franz Boas: Kultur, Sprache, Rasse.. Edited by Pöhl, F; Tilg, B.  ( 2009.): 111-129.  [abs]
  19. Baker, LD. "Herskovits and the Heart of Blackness (Consultant)."   ( 2009.).
  20. Baker, LD. "The Location of Franz Boas within the African-American Struggle [reprint]."   ( 2009.): 111-129.  [abs]
  21. Baker, LD. "Review of The social sciences and theories of race." JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE  vol. 14 no. 1 (March, 2008.): 234-235. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  22. Baker, LD. "Black women in the ivory tower, 1850–1954: An intellectual history by stephanie y. evans." Souls  vol. 10 no. 2 (January, 2008.): 179-187. [doi]
  23. Baker, LD. "When the “good one” is “baaad”: Modern racism in john singleton’s shaft." Souls  vol. 10 no. 2 (January, 2008.): 165-178. [doi]  [abs]
  24. Baker, LD. "Risk Avoidance and Transfer: Thoughts on New Directions for Africana Studies." International Journal of Africana Studies  vol. 14 no. 1 ( 2008.): 66-70.
  25. Baker, LD. "Speaking of Anthropological Theory." A History of Anthropological Theory. Edited by Erickson, PA; Murphy, LD.  ( 2008.).
  26. Baker, L. ""Anthropology, History of."." Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Edited by Moore, JH.  vol. 1 ( 2008.): 93-97. [ldbaker/documents/baker36.pdf]
  27. Baker, L. "Boas, Franz." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Edited by William A Darity, J.  vol. 1 ( 2008.): 344-346. [ldbaker/documents/baker35.pdf]
  28. Baker, LD. "Mission Improbable and the Possible Mission." Anthropology News  vol. 49 no. 2 ( 2008.): 7-8. [pdf]
  29. Baker, LD. "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.): 179-187. [pdf]
  30. Baker, LD. "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.): 234-235. [pdf]
  31. Baker, L. "Boas, Franz."   vol. 1 ( 2008.): 344-346.
  32. Baker, LD. "Speaking of Anthropological Theory."   ( 2008.).
  33. Baker, L. ""Anthropology, History of."."   vol. 1 ( 2008.): 93-97.
  34. L.D. Baker. "Transforming Anthropology."   vol. 15 no. 2 (October, 2007.).
  35. Baker, LD. "Signing Off." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 15 no. 2 (October, 2007.): 95-96.
  36. Baker, L. "Transforming Anthropology."   vol. 15 no. 1 (April, 2007.).
  37. Baker, L. "W.G. Pearson’s Uniforms about Distinction." Durham Herald Sun  vol. Nov no. 21 ( 2007.): A22-A22. [ldbaker/documents/baker33.pdf]
  38. Baker, L. "Signing Off."   vol. 15 no. 2 ( 2007.): 95-96. [ldbaker/documents/baker32.pdf]
  39. L.D. Baker. "Transforming Anthropology."   vol. 14 no. 2 (October, 2006.).
  40. Baker, LD. "Mad or Meditative in Maricopa." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 14 no. 2 (October, 2006.): 129-131. [pdf]
  41. Baker, LD. "Mad or Meditative in Maricopa." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 14 no. 2 (October, 2006.): 129-132.
  42. L.D. Baker. "2006 Defining Crime, The State of Things, WUNC National Public Radio July 29."   (July 29, 2006.). [view]
  43. L.D. Baker. "2006 Black Faculty at Duke, The State of Things, WUNC National Public Radio June 15."   (June 15, 2006.). [view]
  44. Baker, LD. "Hate Crime, Plain and Simple." Durham Herald Sun  (June, 2006.): A6-A6. [ldbaker/documents/baker27.html]
  45. L.D. Baker. "Transforming Anthropology."   vol. 14 no. 1 (April, 2006.).
  46. Baker, LD. "Thinking Through Genre." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 14 no. 1 (April, 2006.): 1. [pdf]
  47. Baker, LD. "Parental involvement on display at W.G. Pearson." Durham Herald Sun  no. Dec 7 A4 ( 2006.).
  48. Baker, LD. "Missionary Positions.." Globalization and RaceTransformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness.. Edited by Clarke, KM; Thomas, DA.  ( 2006.): Pp. 37-54.. [ldbaker/documents/baker29.pdf]
  49. Baker, LD. "Missionary Positions.."   ( 2006.): Pp. 37-54..
  50. L.D. Baker. "Transforming Anthroplogy."   vol. 13 no. 2 (October, 2005.).
  51. BAKER, LD. "Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge." American Anthropologist  vol. 107 no. 3 (September, 2005.): 524-525. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  52. L.D. Baker. "The Real Massacre ain't 50s." Pop and Politics  (April 13, 2005.). [articles_detail.cfm]
  53. L.D. Baker. "Transforming Anthroplogy."   vol. 13 no. 1 (April, 2005.).
  54. Baker, LD. "Naming Moments Properly.." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 13 no. 1 ( 2005.): 1-2. [ldbaker/documents/baker25.pdf]
  55. Baker, LD. "Taking the Plunge and Seizing the Time- -Again." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 13 no. 2 ( 2005.): 75-78. [ldbaker/documents/baker24.pdf]
  56. Baker, LD. "Review of Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge by Jerry Gershenhorn.." American Anthropologist  vol. 107 ( 2005.): 524-525. [ldbaker/documents/baker26.pdf]
  57. Baker, LD. "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]
  58. BAKER, LD. "A Model Approach for Studying Race: Provocative Theory, Sound Science, and Very Good History." American Anthropologist  vol. 106 no. 1 (March, 2004.): 168-172. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  59. Baker, LD. "You can’t do that without organization." Souls  vol. 6 no. 3-4 (January, 2004.): 36-40. [doi]
  60. Baker, LD. "Review of Racism: A Short History by George M. Fredrickson." New West Indian Guide  vol. 78 no. 1&2 (Fall, 2004.): 125-126. [ldbaker/documents/baker21.pdf]
  61. Baker, LD. "Message from the President." North American Dialogue  vol. 7 no. 2 ( 2004.): 4. [pdf]
  62. Baker, LD. "Franz Boas out of the Ivory Tower." Anthropological Theory  vol. 4 no. 1 ( 2004.): 29-51. [pdf], [doi]  [abs]
  63. L.D. Baker, Editor. Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience. Edited by Baker, LD. Blackwell Publishing, 2004. [book.asp]  [abs]
  64. Baker, LD. "Affirmative Action and Anthropological Research." Anthropology News  vol. 44 no. 7 (October, 2003.): 5-5. [htm]  [abs]
  65. Baker, LD. "Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. George W. Stocking, Jr.." Journal of Anthropological Research  vol. 59 no. 2 (July, 2003.): 252-253. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  66. Baker, LD. "Review of Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. George W. Stocking, Jr.." Journal of Anthropological Research  vol. 59 ( 2003.): 252-253. [ldbaker/documents/baker14.pdf]  [abs]
  67. Baker, LD. "Frederic Ward Putnam." Celebrating a Century of the American Anthropological Assocaition: Presidential Portraits. Edited by Darnell, R; Gleach, FW.  ( 2002.): 5-9.
  68. Baker, LD. "Why Students Get A’s." New York Times  ( 2002.). (Section A; Page 26; Column 6)
  69. Baker, LD. "Research, Reform, and Racial Uplift: The Mission of the Hampton Folklore Society 1893-1899." History of Anthropology  vol. 9 ( 2002.): 42-80. [pdf]
  70. Baker, LD. "Uncommon Ground: From Pastures to Protest." UPDATE: The Newsletter of the African Burial Ground Project  vol. 3 no. 5 ( 2001.): 4-5.
  71. Baker, LD. "The Color Blind Bind." Cultural Diversity in the United States. Edited by Susser, I; Patterson, TC.  ( 2001.): 103-19. [ldbaker/documents/baker12.pdf]
  72. Baker, LD. "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. [ldbaker/documents/baker11.pdf]  [abs]
  73. Baker, LD. "Response to 'Philosophical Aspects of the "AAA Statement on 'Race' "." Anthropological Theory  vol. 1 no. 4 ( 2001.): 467-471. [pdf], [doi]  [abs]
  74. Baker, LD. "Daniel G. Brinton's success on the road to obscurity, 1890-99.." Cultural anthropology : journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology  vol. 15 no. 3 (January, 2000.): 394-423. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  75. Baker, LD. "Review of African-American Pioneers in Anthropology, edited Faye V. Harrison and Ira E. Harrison." American Anthropologist  vol. 102 no. 2 ( 2000.): 368-370. [ldbaker/documents/baker5.pdf]  [abs]
  76. Baker, LD. "Afrocentricty and the American Dream." Dispatches From the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience. Edited by Marable, M.  ( 2000.): 224-35. [pdf]
  77. Baker, LD. "Commitment to Scientific Truth." Anthropology Newsletter  vol. 40 no. 4 (April, 1999.): 2-2.
  78. 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]
  79. Baker, LD. "Racism in Professional Settings: Forms of Address as Clues to Power Relations." Race & Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture. Edited by Spears, AK.  ( 1999.): 115-132.
  80. Baker, LD. "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. [ldbaker/documents/baker6.pdf]  [abs]
  81. Baker, LD. "Over a Cliff or into a Brick Wall: Political and Policy Implications of Racial Categories." Anthropology Newsletter  vol. 39 no. 1 ( 1998.): 16-17.
  82. Baker, LD. "New Directions in the History of United States Anthropology." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 7 no. 1 ( 1998.): 71-74.
  83. Baker, LD. "Columbia University's Franz Boas: He led the undoing of scientific racism." JOURNAL OF BLACKS IN HIGHER EDUCATION  no. 22 ( 1998.): 89-96. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  84. Baker, LD. From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954. University of California Press, 1998. [html]  [abs]
  85. Baker, LD. "Unraveling the Boasian Discourse: The Racial Politics of "Culture" in School Desegregation, 1944-1954.." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 7 no. 1 ( 1998.): 15-32. [ldbaker/documents/baker4.pdf]  [abs]
  86. Baker, LD. "Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries.Vernon J. Williams, Jr.." American Journal of Sociology  vol. 102 no. 3 (November, 1996.): 909-910. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  87. Baker, LD. "Reflections in the National Mirror." Anthropology Newsletter  vol. 1 (February, 1996.): 6-6.
  88. Baker, LD. "Race and the American Agenda, part II. Clarence Thomas’ Re-invention of Anthropology." Anthropology Newsletter  (January, 1996.): 18-19.
  89. Baker, LD. "It Helps to Understand the Pressures on Marshall." The Raleigh News and Observer  ( 1996.). (A25)
  90. Baker, LD. "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. [ldbaker/clippings/williams.html]  [abs]
  91. Baker, LD. "Race and the American Agenda, part 1. The Anthropology of The Affirmative Action Debate." Anthropology Newsletter  vol. 16 (September, 1995.).
  92. Baker, LD. "For Whom The Bell Curve Tolls: Power, Money, and Multiculturalism." Identities  vol. 1 no. 4 (April, 1995.): 443-445. [doi]
  93. Baker, LD. "For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls: Poverty & Power." Voice of Black Studies  vol. 19 no. 1 ( 1995.): 5-6.
  94. Baker, LD. "America’s Intractable ’Race Problem’." Chronicle of Higher Education  no. B4 ( 1995.).
  95. Baker, LD. "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], [doi]  [abs]
  96. Baker, LD. "Savage Inequality: Anthropology in the Erosion of the Fifteenth Amendment." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 5 no. 1-2 (January, 1994.): 28-33. [doi]
  97. Baker, LD; Patterson, TC. "Race, Racism, and the History of U.S. Anthropology." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 5 no. 1-2 (January, 1994.): 1-7. [pdf], [doi]  [abs]
  98. Baker, LD. "From Cannibal to Animal: Contextualizing the Image on the Cover." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 5 no. 1-2 (January, 1994.): 41-46. [doi]
  99. Phillips, LD; Baker, LD. "Roots of Reform." The Atlanta Journal  ( 1994.). (A19)
  100. Baker, LD. "From Cannibal to Animal: Exhibiting Ota Benga." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 5 no. 1 ( 1994.): 36-36.
  101. Baker, LD. "Ota Benga, Story of A Tragic Travesty." Teaching Anthropology  vol. 5 ( 1993.): 21-22.
  102. Baker, LD. "Race and Class." New York Times  ( 1992.).
  103. Baker, LD. "Doing the Right Thing in Anthropology." Teaching Anthropology  vol. 92 ( 1991.): 14-14.
  104. Baker, LD. "Cultural Creolization and the Constitution of Ethnicity Amongst Aboriginal Professionals in Dampierland, Western Australia, In Foragers in Context: Long Term, Regional and Historical Perspectives in Hunter-Gatherer Studies." Michigan Discussions in Anthropology  vol. 10 ( 1991.): 17-29.
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