Full Description
Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics is a groundbreaking collection that centers the imaginative intellectual perspectives, voices, and experiences of Black American feminist anthropologists. Twenty-five years ago, as the Foreword states, this book dared to put three words together in the title-Black. Feminist. Anthropology- "that have not always kept company with each other-and in the minds of many both in and outside of the academy, they should remain separate." Standing the test of time, it is still a bold reimagining of anthropology, and all social sciences, as inclusive and decolonized, while establishing a new Black feminist anthropology canon that decades later is too often taken for granted as normative. Black Feminist Anthropology is filled with a message of theoretical possibilities that anyone who enters its pages will find "healing," "life-saving," and an affirmation that Black women anthropologists have contributed much to the theory, politics, praxis and poetics of anthropology, gender and women's studies, masculinity studies, queer studies, the social sciences generally, and any other discipline that seeks transformation from the inside out. It is both an archive and a legacy for the next generation.
Contents
Foreword by Johnnetta B. Cole
Preface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition:
Creating a Canon and Building a Legacy: Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Black Feminist Anthropology
"Poem for My Black Anthropology Sistahs Today"
Preface to the 2001 Edition
Introduction: Forging a Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics of Black Feminist Anthropology
Irma McClaurin
1 Seeking the Ancestors: Forging a Black Feminist Tradition in Anthropology
A. Lynn Bolles
2 Theorizing a Black Feminist Self in Anthropology: Toward an Autoethnographic Approach
Irma McClaurin
3 A Passion for Sameness: Encountering a Black Feminist Self in Fieldwork in the Dominican Republic
Kimberly Eison Simmons
4 Disciplining the Black Female Body: Learning Feminism in Africa and the United States
Carolyn Martin Shaw
5 Negotiating Identity and Black Feminist Politics in Caribbean Research
Karla Slocum
6 A Black Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Commodification of Women in the New Global Culture
Angela M. Gilliam
7 Biomedical Ethics, Gender, and Ethnicity: Implications for Black Feminist Anthropology
Cheryl Mwaria
8 Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race, and Feminism
Paulla A. Ebron
9 A Homegirl Goes Home: Black Feminism and the Lure of Native Anthropology
Cheryl Rodriguez
Notes on Contributors
Notes on the Cover Art and Author Photograph
Photo Credits
Index
