Threatening anthropology : McCarthyism and the FBI's surveillance of activist anthropologists /
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Durham:
Duke University Press,
2004
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Table of Contents:
- A running start at the Cold War: time, place, and outcomes
- Melville Jacobs, Albert Canwell, The University of Washington Regents: a message sent
- Syncopated incompetence: the AAA's reluctance to protect academic freedom
- Hoover's informer
- Lessons learned: Jacobs' fallout and Swadesh's troubles
- Public show trials: Gene Weltfish and a conspiracy of silence
- Bernhard Stern: "A sense of atrophy among those who fear"
- Persecuting equality: the travails of Jack Harris and Mary Shepardson
- Examining the FBI's means and methods
- Known shades of Red: Marxist anthropologists who escaped public show trials
- Red diaper babies, suspect agnates, cognates and afines
- Culture, equality, poverty & paranoia: the FBI, Oscar Lewis & Margaret Mead
- Crusading liberals advocating for racial justice: Philleo Nash & Ashley Montagu
- The suspicions of internationalists
- A glimpse of post McCarthyism: FBI surveillance and consequences for activism
- The Cold War's impact on free inquiry