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Race experts: sculpture, anthropology, and the American public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of mankind

Part of the Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology series
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Examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in the Races of Mankind series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930.

Hoffman's Races of Mankind exhibit was realized as a series of 104 bronzes of racial types from around the world, a unique visual mediation between anthropological expertise and everyday ideas about race in interwar America.

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