Black feminist anthropology : theory, politics, praxis, and poetics /

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Imprint:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2001.
Description:xiv, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4520894
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Other authors / contributors:McClaurin, Irma.
ISBN:0813529255 (alk. paper)
0813529263 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Forging a Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics of Black Feminist Anthropology
  • 1. Seeking the Ancestors: Forging a Black Feminist Tradition in Anthropology
  • 2. Theorizing a Black Feminist Self in Anthropology: Toward an Autoethnographic Approach
  • 3. A Passion for Sameness: Encountering a Black Feminist Self in Fieldwork in the Dominican Republic
  • 4. Disciplining the Black Female Body: Learning Feminism in Africa and the United States
  • 5. Negotiating Identity and Black Feminist Politics in Caribbean Research
  • 6. A Black Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Commodification of Women in the New Global Culture
  • 7. Biomedical Ethics, Gender, and Ethnicity: Implications for Black Feminist Anthropology
  • 8. Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race, and Feminism
  • 9. A Homegirl Goes Home: Black Feminism and the Lure of Native Anthropology
  • Contributors
  • Index