Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century (Book) [show prizes]
Title: Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Author: Charles King
Abstract: A group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s--a sweeping chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures and ourselves.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/549852/gods-of-the-upper-air-by-charles-king/9780385542197/
Primary URL Description: Publisher's website
Access Model: Not open access
Publisher: Doubleday
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0385542197
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes
Gin, Sex, Malaria, and the Hunt for Academic Prestige (Article)
Title: Gin, Sex, Malaria, and the Hunt for Academic Prestige
Author: Charles King
Abstract: Excerpt from Gods of the Upper Air
Year: 2019
Primary URL: http://www-chronicle-com/article/gin-sex-malaria-and-the-hunt-for-academic-prestige/
Format: Other
Periodical Title: Chronicle of Higher Education Review
Genius at Work: How Franz Boas Created the Field of Cultural Anthropology (Article)
Title: Genius at Work: How Franz Boas Created the Field of Cultural Anthropology
Author: Charles King
Abstract: Excerpt from Gods of the Upper Air
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/genius-work-how-franz-boas-created-field-cultural-anthropology
Format: Magazine
Periodical Title: Columbia Magazine
The Anthropologists Who Upended the 'Science' of White Supremacy (Article)
Title: The Anthropologists Who Upended the 'Science' of White Supremacy
Author: Charles King
Abstract: Overview of Gods of the Upper Air
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-anthropologists-who-upended-the-science-of-white-supremacy/2019/08/01/da0575c6-a314-11e9-b732-41a79c2551bf_story.html
Format: Newspaper
Periodical Title: Washington Post
When Zora Neale Hurston Studied Zombies in Haiti (Article)
Title: When Zora Neale Hurston Studied Zombies in Haiti
Author: Charles King
Abstract: Excerpt from Gods of the Upper Air
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://zora.medium.com/when-zora-met-zombie-dbcf0fb45d11
Format: Magazine
Format: Other
Periodical Title: Medium
Schule der Rebellen: Wie ein Kreis verwegener Anthropologen Race, Sex und Gender erfand (Book)
Title: Schule der Rebellen: Wie ein Kreis verwegener Anthropologen Race, Sex und Gender erfand
Author: Charles King
Abstract: German translation of Gods of the Upper Air
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/buch/schule-der-rebellen/978-3-446-26580-6/
Publisher: Hanser Verlag
Type: Translation
Copy sent to NEH?: No
La riscoperta dell'humanita (Book)
Title: La riscoperta dell'humanita
Author: Charles King
Abstract: Italian translation of Gods of the Upper Air
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://www.einaudi.it/catalogo-libri/storia/storia-moderna/la-riscoperta-dellumanita-charles-king-9788806245795/
Publisher: Einaudi
Type: Translation
Copy sent to NEH?: No
What Zora Went Looking For (Article)
Title: What Zora Went Looking For
Author: Charles King
Abstract: Excerpt from Gods of the Upper Air
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.neh.gov/article/what-zora-went-looking
Format: Magazine
Periodical Title: Humanities
American Students Are Taught Racism Is Bad—But They're Still Not Learning the Truth About Race (Article)
Title: American Students Are Taught Racism Is Bad—But They're Still Not Learning the Truth About Race
Author: Charles King
Abstract: Article on race and US education drawn from research for Gods of the Upper Air
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://time.com/5642773/american-students-taught-race/
Format: Magazine
Periodical Title: TIME.com