This pathbreaking collection of intellectual biographies is the first to probe the careers of thirteen early African American anthropologists, detailing both their achievements and their struggle with the latent and sometimes blatant racism of the times. Invaluable to historians of anthropology, this collection will also be useful to readers interested in Black studies and biography. Includes entries on: Caroline Bond Day, Zora Neale Hurston, Louis Eugene King, Laurence Foster, W. Montague, Cobb, Katherine Dunham, Ellen Irene Diggs, Allison Davis, St. Clair Drake, Arthur Huff Fauset, William S. Willis Jr., Hubert Barnes Ross, Elliot Skinner.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Anthropology, African Americans, and the Emancipation of a Subjugated Knowledge
Faye V. Harrison and Ira E. Harrison 1
1. Caroline Bond Day: Pioneer Black Physical Anthropologist
Hubert B. Ross, Amelia Marie Adams, and Lynne Mallory Williams 37
2. Feminism and Black Culture in the Ethnography of Zora Neale Hurston
Gwendolyn Mikell 51
3. Louis Eugene King, the Anthropologist Who Never Was
Ira E. Harrison 70
4. Laurence Foster: Anthropologist, Scholar, and Social Advocate
Yolanda Moses 85
5. W. Montague Cobb: Physical Anthropologist, Anatomist, and Activist
Lesley M. Rankin-Hill and Michael L. Blakey 101
6. Katherine Dunham: Anthropologist, Artist, Humanist
Joyce Aschenbrenner 137
7. Ellen Irene Diggs: Coming of Age in Atlanta, Havana, and Baltimore
A. Lynn Bolles 154
8. Across Class and Culture: Allison Davis and His Works
Dallas L. Browne 168
9. St. Clair Drake: Scholar and Activist
Willie L. Baber 191
10. Arthur Huff Fauset, Campaigner for Social Justice: A Symphony of Diversity
Carole H. Carpenter 213
11. Skeletons in the Anthropological Closet: The Life and Work of William S. Willis Jr.
Peggy Reeves Sanday 243
12. Hubert B. Ross, the Anthropologist Who Was
Ira E. Harrison 265
13. The Continuing Dialogue: The Life and Work of Elliot Skinner as Exemplar of the African-American/African Dialectic
Cheryl Mwaria 274
Notes on Contributors 293
