Black feminist anthropology : theory, politics, praxis, and poetics /
Other Authors: | McClaurin, Irma. |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Rutgers University Press, 2001 |
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In this volume, Irma McClaurin has collected-for the first time-essays that explore the role and contributions of black feminist anthropologists. She has asked her contributors to 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. Every chapter is a unique journey that enables the reader to see how scholars are made. The writers present material from their own fieldwork to demonstrate how these experiences were shaped by their identities. Finally, each essay suggests how the author's field experiences have influenced the theoretical and methodological choices she has made throughout her career.
Not since Diane Wolf's Feminist Dilemmas in the Field or Hortense Powdermaker's Stranger and Friend have we had such a breadth of women anthropologists discussing the critical (and personal) issues that emerge when doing ethnographic research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword | p. ix | |
Preface | p. xiii | |
Introduction: Forging a Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics of Black Feminist Anthropology | p. 1 | |
1 | Seeking the Ancestors: Forging a Black Feminist Tradition in Anthropology | p. 24 |
2 | Theorizing a Black Feminist Self in Anthropology: Toward an Autoethnographic Approach | p. 49 |
3 | A Passion for Sameness: Encountering a Black Feminist Self in Fieldwork in the Dominican Republic | p. 77 |
4 | Disciplining the Black Female Body: Learning Feminism in Africa and the United States | p. 102 |
5 | Negotiating Identity and Black Feminist Politics in Caribbean Research | p. 126 |
6 | A Black Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Commodification of Women in the New Global Culture | p. 150 |
7 | Biomedical Ethics, Gender, and Ethnicity: Implications for Black Feminist Anthropology | p. 187 |
8 | Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race, and Feminism | p. 211 |
9 | A Homegirl Goes Home: Black Feminism and the Lure of Native Anthropology | p. 233 |
Contributors | p. 259 | |
Index | p. 265 |
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