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2012 3-Societies MeetingPhiladelphia, PA

July 11, 2012Jennifer Brown

Department of AnthropologyUniversity of Pennsylvania

Ashley Montagu, 1931Ashley Montagu, 1931

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ReferencesReferences• Ashley Montagu Papers. American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia, PA.

• Ashley Montagu, 94, Anthropologist and Popular Author. November 29, 1999. New York Times.

• Marks, Jonathan. 2008. Race Across the Physical-Cultural Divide in American Anthropology in A New History of Anthropology. Blackwell Publishing. Malden, MA

• Montagu, M., & Martin, P. (1945). Is it True About Women?. Saturday Evening Post, 217(39), 22-73.

• Montagu, Ashley. 1951. Statement on race : an extended discussion in plain language of the UNESCO Statement by experts on race problems. New York: Schuman

• Sperling, Susan. 2008. “Ashley’s Ghost: McCarthyism, Science, and Human Nature” in Anthropology and the Dawn of the Cold War: the Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism and the CIA. Pluto Press

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My classmates in HSS 519

Professor M. Susan Lindee

The Archivists at the American Philosophical Society and the Paley Center for Media

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