Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race

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Paul Radin, famed ethnographer of the Winnebago, joined Fisk University in the late 1920s. During his three-year appointment, he and graduate student Andrew Polk Watson collected autobiographies and religious conversion narratives from elderly African Americans. That innovative, subject-centered research complemented like-minded scholarship by African American historians reacting against the disparaging portrayals of black people by white historians. Utilizing the Fisk archives, Radin's unpublished research manuscript, and other archival and published sources, Anthropology and Radical Humanism revisits the Radin-Watson collection and allied research at Fisk and sets Paul Radin's findings within the broader context of his discipline, African American culture, and his career-defining work among the Winnebago.