The second generation of African American pioneers in anthropology / edited by Ira E. Harrison, Deborah Johnson-Simon, and Erica Lorraine Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrison, Ira E., editor.

Johnson-Simon, Deborah, editor.

Williams, Erica Lorraine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--United States--History.

Anthropology.

Ethnology--United States--History.

Ethnology.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 227 pages : portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]

Summary:

"After the scholars profiled in African-American pioneers in anthropology, a second generation of African American anthropologists trained in the late 1950s and 1960s. Expected to study their own or similar cultures, these specialists often focused on the African diaspora but in some cases ranged farther afield both geographically and intellectually. Yet their work remains largely unknown to colleagues and students. This volume collects intellectual biographies of fifteen accomplished African American anthropologists of the era. The authors explore the scholars' diverse backgrounds and interests and look at their groundbreaking methodologies, ethnographies, and theories. They also place their subjects within their tumultuous times, when antiracism and anticolonialism transformed the field and the emergence of ideas around racial vindication brought forth new worldviews. Scholars profiled: George Clement Bond, Johnnetta B. Cole, James Lowell Gibbs Jr., Vera Mae Green, John Langston Gwaltney, Ira E. Harrison, Delmos Jones, Diane K. Lewis, Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Oliver Osborne, Anselme Remy, William Alfred Shack, Audrey Smedley, Niara Sudarkasa, and Charles Preston Warren II"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction: Celebrating triumphs, overcoming challenges, and charting a course for institutional transformation / Erica Lorraine Williams, Deborah Johnson-Simon, and Ira E. Harrison

James Lowell Gibbs Jr : a life of educational achievement and services / Dallas L. Browne

Charles Preston Warren II : military forensic anthropologist, scholar, and applied scientist / Alice Baldwin-Jones

William Alfred Shack : an unacknowledged giant / Dallas L. Browne

Diane K. Lewis and the transformation of anthropology : an ideology of radical change / Cheryl R. Rodriguez

Delmos Jones and the end of neutrality / Elgin L. Klugh

Niara Sudarkasa : inspiring Black women's leadership / Erica Lorraine Williams

Johnnetta Betsch Cole : eradicating multiple systems of oppression / Riché J. Daniel Barnes

John Langston Gwaltney : the development of a core Black ethnography and museology / Deborah Johnson-Simon

Ira E. Harrison : activist, scholar, and visionary pioneer / Alisha R. Winn

Audrey Smedley : a pioneers' pioneer anthropologist / Janis Faye Hutchinson

George Clement Bond : anthropologist, Africanist, educator, and visionary / Rachel Watkins

Oliver Osborne : African American nurse-anthropologist pioneer / Bertin M. Louis Jr.

Anselme Remy and the anthropology of liberation / Angela McMillan Howell

Vera Mae Green : Quaker roots and applied anthropology / Antoinette Jackson

Claudia Mitchell-Kernan : sociolinguistic anthropologist, administrator, and innovator / Betty J. Harris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252042027

0252042026

9780252083716

0252083717

OCLC:

1031342033