Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 277 pages
• Published by: Rutgers University Press September 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0813529263
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0813529264
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 6.7 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.1 pounds

Product Review
"An essential text for those who want to read cutting edge anthropological theory." -- Louise Lamphere, professor of anthropology, University of New Mexico and president, American Anthropological Association, 1999-2001

"The premise that scholarship and social justice agendas must inform one another fosters a new anthropology." -- Patricia Hill Collins, author of Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice

Back Cover Copy
In this volume, Irma McClaurin has collected essays that explore the contributions of black feminist anthropologists. Her 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.

Contributors are A. Lynn Bolles, Paulla A. Ebron, Angela M. Gilliam, Irma McClaurin, Cheryl Mwaria, Cheryl Rodriguez, Carolyn Martin Shaw, Kimberly Eison Simmons, and Karla Slocum