Gene Weltfish Bibliography
Alexander, Susan. “Postwar Living: Congress of American Women.” Federated Press, May 14, 1946, n.p.
American Anthropological Association. “AAA Statement on Race.” 1998. www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=2583, accessed April 11, 2022.
American Association of Biological Anthropologists. “The AAPA Statement on Race and Racism.” 2019. https://physanth.org/about/position-statements/aapa-statement-race-and-racism-2019/, accessed April 11, 2022.
American Association of University Professors, et al. “Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism in American History (June 2021).” www.historians.org/ divisive-concepts-statement, accessed April 11, 2022.
American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom. Can You Name Them? New York: ACDIF, 1939.
Anderson, Mark. “Ruth Benedict, Boasian Anthropology, and the Problem of the Color Line.” History and Anthropology 25, no. 3 (2014): 395–414.
Barkan, Elazar. The Retreat of Scientific Racism. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Benedict, Ruth. Race: Science and Politics. New York, NY: Modern Age Books, 1940.
______. Race: Science and Politics. Rev. ed. New York, NY: Viking Press, 1947.
Benedict, Ruth, and Gene Weltfish. “The Future of Race Prejudice.” ALA Bulletin 38, no. 5 (May 1944): 186.
______. In Henry’s Backyard. New York, NY: Henry Schuman, Inc., 1948.
______. The Races of Mankind. New York, NY: Public Affairs Committee, 1943.
Berry, Abner W. “Council on African Affairs Criticizes Max Yergan.” Daily Worker, March 29, 1948, 7.
Boring, Edwin, et al. 1945. “On the Weltfishian Oath.” The Scientific Monthly 61, no. 6 (December): 497–502.
Burkholder, Zoe. Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race, 1900–1954. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Castledine, Jacqueline. Cold War Progressives: Women’s Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2012.
Conrad, Earl. “American Viewpoint: A Big ‘A’ in Anthropology.” Chicago Defender, April 28, 1945, 11.
de Haan, Francisca. “Continuing Cold War Paradigms in Western Historiography of Transnational Women’s Organisations: The Case of the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF).” Women’s History Review 19, no. 4 (2010): 547–573.
“Department of Education.” The City Record, December 30, 1926.
“Department of Education.” The City Record, July 31, 1922.
Dewey, John and John Childs. “The Underlying Philosophy of Education.” In The Educational Frontier, ed. William H. Kilpatrick, 287–319. New York, NY: D. Appleton Century Company, 1933.
Diamond, Stanley. “Preface.” In Theory and Practice: Essays Presented to Gene Weltfish, ed. Stanley Diamond. New York, NY and London: Mouton Publishers, 1980.
Du Bois, W.E.B. In Battle for Peace: The Story of My 83rd Birthday. New York, NY: Masses and Mainstream, 1952.
Edwards, Violet. “Note on The Races of Mankind.” In Race: Science and Politics, ed. Ruth Benedict. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1940.
Edwards, Violet and Gene Weltfish. We Are All Brothers. New York, NY: Public Affairs Committee. Script for a filmstrip based on the Races of Mankind pamphlet. 2nd ed. 1946.
Fédération Democratique Internationale des Femmes. Congrès International des Femmes. Paris: Fédération Democratique Internationale des Femmes, 1946.
Flannery, Regina. “Report: Proceedings of the American Anthropological Association for the Year Ending December, 1938.” American Anthropologist 41, no. 2 (April–June, 1939): 295–308.
Harvey, Joy Dorothy. “Weltfish, Gene.” In The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, volume 2, L–Z, ed. Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie and Joy Dorothy Harvey, 1364–1366. New York, NY: Routledge, 2000.
Hazard, Anthony Q., Jr. Boasians at War: Anthropology, Race, and World War II. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Hristova, Elena D. “Imagining Brotherhood: The Comics of the American Jewish Committee, 1941–1948.” MPhil thesis, University of Sussex, 2013.
Huxley, Aldous. Science, Liberty and Peace. London: Chatto & Windus, 1947. “International Women’s Group Asks UN to Take Steps to Outlaw Discrimination.” The Afro-American, August 3, 1946.
Jones, Claudia. “Controversy or Prejudice.” Spotlight 2, no. 3 (March 1944): 26–27.
Kinkel, Marianne. “Critical Humor in Ad Reinhardt’s Races of Mankind Cartoons.” The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture, 2013. https://brooklynrail.org/special/AD_REINHARDT/ads-thoughts-and-practices/critical-humor-in-ad-reinhardts- races-of-mankind-cartoons, accessed April 11, 2022.
______. Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011.
Kuznick, Peter J. Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Activists in 1930s America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
LaFollette, Marcel C. “A Survey of Science Content in U.S. Radio Broadcasting, 1920 through 1940s.” Science Communication 24, no. 1 (September 2002): 4–33.
Laton, Anita D. and Edna W. Bailey. Suggestions for Teaching Selected Material from the Field of Genetics. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1939.
Lesser, Alexander. “Franz Boas.” In Totems and Teachers: Perspectives on the History of Anthropology, ed. Sydel Silverman, 1–33. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.
Lieberman, Leonard. “Gender and the Deconstruction of the Race Concept.” American Anthropologist 99, no. 3 (September 1997): 545–558.
Lynch, Hollis. Black American Radicals and the Liberation of Africa: The Council on African Affairs, 1937–1955. Ithaca, NY: Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, 1978.
Margetson, Ann L. “Some Salient Events in the Professional Life of Gene Weltfish.” In Theory and Practice: Essays Presented to Gene Weltfish, ed. Stanley Diamond. New York, NY and London: Mouton Publishers, 1980.
“Nazi’s Conception of Science Scored.” New York Times, December 11, 1938, 50.
Niehaus, Juliet. “Education and Democracy in the Anthropology of Gene Weltfish.” In Visionary Observers: Anthropological Inquiry and Education, ed. Jill B.R. Cherneff and Eve Hochwald, 87–117. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Nirenberg, Alice B. “Meet Your Relatives.” American Unity 2, no. 4 (January 1944): 17–23. Text by Gene Weltfish and dramatization by Alice B. Nirenberg.
Parks, Douglas and Ruth Pathé. “Gene Weltfish: 1902–1980.” Plains Anthropologist 30, no. 107 (February 1985): 59–64.
Pathé, Ruth E. “Gene Weltfish.” In Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies, ed. Ute Gacs, Aisha Khan, Jerrie McIntyre, and Ruth Weinberg. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Price, David H. Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI’s Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.
Rosenberg, Rosalind. Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think about Sex and Politics. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Schachter, Judith. “Foreword to the 2019 Georgia Edition.” In Race: Science and Politics by Ruth Benedict, including The Races of Mankind by Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish, foreword by Margaret Mead. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2019.
“Scientific Events: Intellectual Freedom.” Science 88, no. 2294 (December 16, 1938): 562.
Sutton, Olive. “Women’s Meeting Hits Deportations.” Daily Worker, March 10, 1948, 5.
Swerdlow, Amy. “The Congress of American Women: Left-Feminist Peace Politics in the Cold War.” In U.S. History as Women’s History: New Feminist Essays, ed. Linda K. Kerber, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Kathryn Kish Sklar, 296–312. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Teslow, Tracy. Constructing Race: The Science of Bodies and Cultures in American Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Torres Colón, Gabriel Alejandro, and Charles A. Hobbs. “The Intertwining of Culture and Nature: Franz Boas, John Dewey, and Deweyan Strands of American Anthropology.” Journal of the History of Ideas 76, no. 1 (January 2015): 139–62.
United States Census Bureau. 14th Census of Population. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1920.
Watson, Goodwin. A Critical Analysis of the Pictures in “There Are No Master Races”: A Study. New York: Bureau of Applied Social Research, 1945.
______. The Effect of “There Are No Master Races” upon Knowledge and Attitudes of Readers: A Study. New York, NY: Bureau of Applied Social Research, 1945.
Weltfish, Gene. “American Racism: Japan’s Secret Weapon.” Far Eastern Survey 14, no. 17 (August 29, 1945): 233–237.
______. “The Blindness of Prejudice and Its Meaning for the Guidance Worker.” In Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Guidance Conference Held at Purdue University, November 16–17, 1945, ed. H.H. Remmers, 36-40. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University, 1945.
______. “Comments on Miss Abe’s Remarks about Mary’s Problem of Possible Mixed Marriage,” Journal of Social Issues 1, no. 2 (May 1945): 33–34.
______. “The Ethnic Dimension of Human History: Pattern or Patterns of Culture.” In Men and Cultures: Selected Papers of the Fifth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Philadelphia, September 1–9, 1956, ed. Anthony Wallace, 207-218. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1956.
______. “Franz Boas: The Academic Response.” In Anthropology: Ancestors and Heirs, ed. Stanley Diamond, 123–148. The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1980.
______. “An Historical Note.” Journal of Social Issues 1, no. 2 (May 1945): 19–21.
______. “The Interrelation of Technique and Design in North American Basketry.” PhD diss., Columbia University, 1950.
______. “Introduction.” In Haiti Faces Tomorrow’s Peace, ed. Max L. Hudicourt, trans. Anita Dylan Weinstein, 3–5. New York: L’Association Democratique Haitienne, 1945. https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:31735061539973, accessed April 11, 2022.
______. “Introduction.” Journal of Social Issues 1, no. 1 (February 1945): 2–4.
______. “The Last Word.” The Scientific Monthly 61, no. 6 (December 1945): 500–502.
______. The Lost Universe: Pawnee Life and Culture. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1965.
______. “May 4th Is the Day.” Daily Worker, April 7, 1946.
______. “Meet Your Relatives.” PM, November 21, 1943.
______. The Origins of Art. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000292113, accessed April 11, 2022.
______. “The Question of Ethnic Identity, an Ethnohistorical Approach.” Ethnohistory 6, no. 4 (Autumn 1959): 321–346.
______.“Racism, Colonialism and World Peace.” In Speaking of Peace: An Edited Report of the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, New York, March 25, 26 and 27, 1949, under the Auspices of the National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, ed. Daniel S. Gillmor,72–76. New York, NY: National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, 1949. https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b283-i002, accessed April 11, 2022.
______. “Science and Prejudice.” The Scientific Monthly 61, no. 3 (September 1945): 210–212.
______. “Scientific Paper Number 183: Science and the Race Problem.” In Forty-Third Annual Report of the South Dakota State Horticultural Society, 109–111. Sioux Falls, SD: South Dakota State Horticultural Society, 1946.
______. “The Scientist Is a Citizen.” The Christian Register (September 1944): 325–327.
______. “Some Problems on Which We Need More Facts—and Some Implications for Action.” Journal of Social Issues 1, no. 1 (February1945): 47–54.
______. “Some Roots of Racial and Religious Prejudice in the Individual Personality.” Journal of Social Issues 1, no. 2 (May 1945): 3–9.
______. “What the Teacher Should Know and Teach about Races.” Pi Lambda Theta Journal 22, no. 3 (March 1944): 106–107.
Weltfish, Gene and Dina M. Bleich. “We Are All Brothers.” See and Hear: The Journal on Audio-Visual Learning 1, no. 6 (February 1946): 30–37. https://archive.org/details/see194546hearjournaloneaucrich/page/n517/mode/1up, accessed April 11, 2022.
Weltfish, Gene and Ronald Lippitt. “Further Remarks on the Re-education of Racial and Religious Prejudice.” Journal of Social Issues 1, no. 2 (May 1945): 49–53.
Westerman, George W. A Study of Socio-economic Conflicts on the Panama Canal Zone. Panamá: Liga Civica Nacional, 1948. Text in Spanish is available at https://es.slideshare.net/TheAfrolatinoProject/foster-pag20-1-estudios-de-los-conflictos-en-la-zona-del-canal- 1948, accessed April 9, 2023.