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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Imagining Negro Laboring Types in Fin de Siècle America

1. Mortality as the Life Story of a People: Frederick L. Hoffman and Actuarial Narratives of African American Extinction, 1896–1915

2. The Negro Is Plastic: The Department of Negro Economics, Sociology, and the Wartime Black Worker

3. Measuring Men for the Work of War: Anthropometry, Race, and the Wartime Draft, 1917–1919

4. Salvaging the Negro: Vocational Rehabilitation and African American Veterans, 1917–1924

5. A New Negro Type: The National Research Council and the Production of Racial Expertise in Postwar America, 1919–1929

Epilogue: Invisible Men: The Afterlives of the Negro Problem in American Racial Thought

Notes

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