Black Feminist Anthropology

by McClaurin, Irma

• ISBN13: 9780813529264
• ISBN10: 0813529263
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

In the discipline's early days, anthropologists were assumed to be white and male. Women and black scholars were relegated to the field's periphery. White feminist anthropologists have successfully carved out an intellectual space identified as feminist anthropology. Unfortunately, the works of black and non-Western feminist anthropologists are rarely cited, and they have yet to be respected as significant shapers of the direction and transformation of feminist anthropology.

Irma McClaurin has collected essays that explore the contributions of black feminist anthropologists. Contributors disclose how their experiences as black women have influenced their anthropological practice in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, and how anthropology has influenced their development as black feminists. Each essay suggests how the author's field experiences have affected the theoretical and methodological choices she has made.

Author Biography

Irma Mcclaurin is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Florida

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Johnnetta B. Cole
Preface	xiii
Introduction: Forging a Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics of Black Feminist Anthropology	1	(23)
Irma Mcclaurin
Seeking the Ancestors: Forging a Black Feminist Tradition in Anthropology	24	(25)
A. Lynn Bolles
Theorizing a Black Feminist Self in Anthropology: Toward an Autoethnographic Approach	49	(28)
Irma Mcclaurin
A Passion for Sameness: Encountering a Black Feminist Self In Fieldwork in the Dominican Republic	77	(25)
Kimberly Eison Simmons
Disciplining the Black Female Body: Learning Feminism in Africa and the United States	102	(24)
Carolyn Martin Shaw
Negotiating Identity and Black Feminist Politics in Caribbean Research	126	(24)
Karla Slocum
A Black Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Commodification of Women in the New Global Culture	150	(37)
Angela M. Gilliam
Biomedical Ethics, Gender, and Ethnicity: Implications for Black Feminist Anthropology	187	(24)
Cheryl Mwaria
Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race, and Feminism	211	(22)
Paulla A. Ebron
A Homegirl Goes Home: Black Feminism and the Lure of Native Anthropology	233	(26)
Cheryl Rodriguez
Contributors	259	(6)
Index	265