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The Lost Black Scholar - Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought (Paperback)
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The Lost Black Scholar - Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought (Paperback)
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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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