TY - JOUR
T1 - Counter-science
T2 - African american historians and the critique of ethnology in nineteenth-century america
AU - Browne, Stephen Howard
PY - 2000/9/1
Y1 - 2000/9/1
N2 - The intersections between social and scientific definitions of race were never so con-spicious nor so consequential as in the nineteenth century. And never was this more true than when such definitions were made to apply to African Americans. We have a scholarship of considerable depth detailing the ways in which African Americans were subjected to the terms of racial science; we need now to ask how those terms were resisted, by whom, and through which rhetorical resources. This essay examines how postbellum African American historians contested racial science and constructed a rhetoric of vindication by appropriating certain scientific claims even as they asserted extra-scientific grounds for full citizenship rights.
AB - The intersections between social and scientific definitions of race were never so con-spicious nor so consequential as in the nineteenth century. And never was this more true than when such definitions were made to apply to African Americans. We have a scholarship of considerable depth detailing the ways in which African Americans were subjected to the terms of racial science; we need now to ask how those terms were resisted, by whom, and through which rhetorical resources. This essay examines how postbellum African American historians contested racial science and constructed a rhetoric of vindication by appropriating certain scientific claims even as they asserted extra-scientific grounds for full citizenship rights.
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U2 - 10.1080/10570310009374676
DO - 10.1080/10570310009374676
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034357052
SN - 1057-0314
VL - 64
SP - 268
EP - 284
JO - Western Journal of Communication
JF - Western Journal of Communication
IS - 3
ER -