Black Feminist Anthropology

[A] refreshing and inspiring collection of nine articles and a superb introduction. . . . Each author brings personal experiences of racism, sexism, and other challenges to bear on what are without exception successful examples of what C. Wright Mills called æthe sociological imagination,Æ where biography, intellectual activity, and activism are presented as a seamless whole. This book succeeds in going beyond MillsÆs vision in unparalleled ways. . . . All levels and collections.

(Choice)

Anthropologists . . . disclose how their experiences as Black women have influenced their anthropological practices in Africa, the Caribbean and the U.S., and how anthropology has influenced their development as Black feminists. . . . The authors write eloquently on the complex mix of personal and professional that dominate their lives.

(Advocate)

Black Feminist Anthropology makes a provocative and important contribution to contemporary Black feminism. For the authors in this book, the premise that scholarship and social justice agendas must inform one another fosters a new anthropology that promises to stimulate new questions for us all.

- Patricia Hill Collins (author of Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice)

Irma McClaurin and her colleagues bring Black Feminist Anthropology into the center of the discipline. Each of these carefully crafted essays combines personal biography with ethnographic insights to forge a feminist analysis of the complex relationship of race, class, and gender in the lives of Black women. Black Feminist Anthropology is an essential text for those who want to read cutting edge anthropological theory.

(Louise Lamphere, professor of anthropology, University of New Mexico and preside)

The three words that launch the title of this book have not always kept company with each otherùand in the minds of many both in and outside of the academy, they should remain separate. In this sense, Professor Irma McClaurin and her sister anthropologists have given us a work that is not only pioneering, but also bold.

- Johnnetta B. Cole (from the Foreword)

"Reflecting on Boundaries, Protection, and Inspiration" by Gina Athena Ulysse mention of Black Feminist Anthropology

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