Black feminist anthropology : theory, politics, praxis, and poetics / edited by Irma McClaurin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McClaurin, Irma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist anthropology.

African American anthropologists.

Ethnology--Philosophy.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

xiv, 277 pages : portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2001]

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.

Contents:

Introduction: forging a theory, politics, praxis, and poetics of black feminist anthropology / Irma McClaurin

Seeking the ancestors: forging a Black feminist tradition in anthropology / A. Lynn Bolles

Theorizing a Black feminist self in anthropology: toward an autoethnographic approach / Irma McClaurin

A passion for sameness: encountering a Black feminist self in fieldwork in the Dominican Republic / Kimberly Eison Simmons

Disciplining the Black female body: learning feminism in Africa and the United States / Carolyn Martin Shaw

Negotiating identity and Black feminist politics in Caribbean research / Karla Slocum

A Black feminist perspective on the sexual commodification of women in the new global culture / Angela M. Gilliam

Biomedical ethics, gender, and ethnicity: implications for Black feminist anthropology / Cheryl Mwaria

Contingent stories of anthropology, race, and feminism / Paulla A. Ebron

A homegirl goes home: Black feminism and the lure of native anthropology / Cheryl Rodriguez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813529255

0813529263

OCLC:

44952053