Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King Summary
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In "Gods of the Upper Air," Charles King reveals how Franz Boas and his students revolutionized our understanding of race, gender, and humanity. Praised by Ibram X. Kendi as "vital for our times," this award-winning narrative shows how renegade anthropologists dismantled dangerous stereotypes that still threaten us today.
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When a Young Woman Challenged the World's Deepest Assumptions
In August 1925, a frail 23-year-old with thick glasses stepped off a steamship onto American Samoa, carrying a question that would shake the foundations of Western thought: Is teenage rebellion hardwired into human biology, or is it something we invented? Margaret Mead had traveled halfway around the world despite chronic pain and an inability to swim, driven by a hunch that would prove revolutionary. At the time, scientific racism wasn't just an academic theory-it was shaping forced sterilization programs, immigration bans, and even presidential speeches about "race suicide." Against this backdrop, Mead and a circle of renegade anthropologists were about to prove that almost everything we believed about human nature was wrong. Their story reveals how science can either reinforce our prejudices or liberate us from them-a tension that still defines our world today. Franz Boas looked nothing like a typical professor. With wild hair and a thick accent, he seemed perpetually out of place in American academia. But his outsider status was precisely what made him dangerous to the establishment. Born to a German Jewish family in 1858, young Franz prepared for adventure by forcing himself to eat disgusting foods and practice deprivation-training that served him well when he lived among the Inuit in 1883.
The Revolutionary Who Learned to See Beyond His Own Culture
The Data That Demolished Scientific Racism
The Women Who Discovered Culture Creates Reality
Voices the Academy Tried to Silence
When Science Confronted the Monster It Had Created
The Revolution That Refuses to Die and What We Still Need to Learn
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