Genealogies of Race and Culture and the Failure of Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms: Rereading Franz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois

Abstract

Charles L. Briggs is director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Stud-ies and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego. His books include Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality (with Richard Bauman, 2003) and Stories in the Time of Chol-era: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare (with Clara Mantini-Briggs, 2003).