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The Lost Black Scholar - Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought (Hardcover)
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The Lost Black Scholar - Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought (Hardcover)
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Allison Davis (1902–83), a preeminent black scholar and social
science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking
investigations into inequality, Jim Crow America, and the cultural
biases of intelligence testing. Davis, one of America’s first
black anthropologists and the first tenured African American
professor at a predominantly white university, produced work that
had tangible and lasting effects on public policy, including
contributions to Brown v. Board of Education, the federal Head
Start program, and school testing practices. Yet Davis remains
largely absent from the historical record. For someone who
generated such an extensive body of work this marginalization is
particularly surprising. But it is also revelatory. In The Lost
Black Scholar, David A. Varel tells Davis’s compelling story,
showing how a combination of institutional racism, disciplinary
eclecticism, and iconoclastic thinking effectively sidelined him as
an intellectual. A close look at Davis’s career sheds light not
only on the racial politics of the academy but also the costs of
being an innovator outside of the mainstream. Equally important,
Varel argues that Davis exemplifies how black scholars led the way
in advancing American social thought. Even though he was rarely
acknowledged for it, Davis refuted scientific racism and laid bare
the environmental roots of human difference more deftly than most
of his white peers, by pushing social science in bold new
directions. Varel shows how Davis effectively helped to lay the
groundwork for the civil rights movement.
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