Philanthropy and Jim Crow in American Social Science.

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Stanfield has provided a complement to Thomas Gossett's award-winning Race: The History of an Idea in America, which also showed how the fields of science and social science follow the values of their time. Stanfield's treatment of the contribution of Robert E. Park through the Tuskegee program is most interesting. He also deals with the personal interplays that controlled decisions of the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial, the Rosenwald Fund, and the Carnegie Corporation, as well as the whole spectrum of social science. Stanfield's effort at sociological analysis is worthwhile, although the decision to force the story into the vocabulary of professional sociology makes this very valuable account less accessible to the general readers for whom it is otherwise well suited. Public and academic libraries, upper-division undergraduate level and beyond.-Choice
"Stanfield has provided a complement to Thomas Gossett's award-winning Race: The History of an Idea in America, which also showed how the fields of science and social science follow the values of their time. Stanfield's treatment of the contribution of Robert E. Park through the Tuskegee program is most interesting. He also deals with the personal interplays that controlled decisions of the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial, the Rosenwald Fund, and the Carnegie Corporation, as well as the whole spectrum of social science. Stanfield's effort at sociological analysis is worthwhile, although the decision to force the story into the vocabulary of professional sociology makes this very valuable account less accessible to the general readers for whom it is otherwise well suited. Public and academic libraries, upper-division undergraduate level and beyond."-Choice

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