Ned Blackhawk and Isaiah Wilner featured in a podcast with the New Books Network

August 30, 2018
Yale History Department professor Ned Blackhawk and Isaiah Wilner (Ph.D. ‘16) were featured in a podcast with the New Books Network.  Ryan Tripp of Los Medanos Community College, writes:
Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas (Yale University Press, 2018), edited by Yale University History and American Studies Professor Ned Blackhawk and University of Chicago Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Isaiah Lorado Wilner, is a compelling collection that charts the influence of Indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the founder of modern anthropology. In 1911, the publication of Boas’s The Mind of Primitive Man challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on relationships with a global circle of Indigenous thinkers who used Boasian anthropology as a medium for their ideas. Contributors also examine how Boasian thought intersected with the work of major modernist figures, demonstrating how ideas of diversity and identity sprang from colonization and empire.”
 
Listen to the podcast here.