edited by Ira E Harrison and Faye V Harrison contributions by Michael L Blakey, Joyce Aschenbrenner, A. Lynn Bolles, Dallas L Browne, Willie L Baber, Carole H Carpenter, Peggy Reeves Sanday, Cheryl Mwaria, Hubert Barnes Ross, Amelia Marie Adams, Lynne Mallory Wiliams, Gwendolyn Mikell, Ira E. Harrison, Yolanda Moses and Lesley M Rankin-Hill
University of Illinois Press, 1999 Paper: 978-0-252-06736-5 | Cloth: 978-0-252-02430-6 Library of Congress Classification GN17.3.U6A37 1999 Dewey Decimal Classification 301.08996073
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This pathbreaking collection of intellectual biographies is the first to probe the careers of thirteen early African American anthropologists, detailing both their achievements and their struggle with the latent and sometimes blatant racism of the times. Invaluable to historians of anthropology, this collection will also be useful to readers interested in Black studies and biography. Includes entries on: Caroline Bond Day, Zora Neale Hurston, Louis Eugene King, Laurence Foster, W. Montague, Cobb, Katherine Dunham, Ellen Irene Diggs, Allison Davis, St. Clair Drake, Arthur Huff Fauset, William S. Willis Jr., Hubert Barnes Ross, Elliot Skinner.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Ira E. Harrison (1933-2020) was a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a founding member of the Association of Black Anthropologists. He was the coauthor of The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology and coauthor of Ethnicity and the Health Belief Systems. Faye V. Harrison is a professor of African American studies and anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her books include Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age.
REVIEWS
"An invaluable volume that documents the courage, strength, and fortitude of the first African American scholars to explore the discursive terrain of anthropology. . . . A veritable treasure trove that every anthropologist needs on the shelf. . . . Put this book on your syllabus if you want to address the major theoretical developments and the legacy of racism and sexism and contributions to anthropology made by women and people of color." --Lee D. Baker, American Anthropologist
"We owe the editors and contributors of African-American Pioneers in Anthropology a debt of gratitude for their contributions to racial diversity in anthropology, as well as to the anthropological study of race and racism. The scholarship displayed in the volume compels anthropologists to rethink their discipline's history and its current concerns."--Transforming Anthropology
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Anthropology, African Americans, and the Emancipation of a Subjugated Knowledge
Faye V. Harrison and Ira E. Harrison 1
1. Caroline Bond Day: Pioneer Black Physical Anthropologist
Hubert B. Ross, Amelia Marie Adams, and Lynne Mallory Williams 37
2. Feminism and Black Culture in the Ethnography of Zora Neale Hurston
Gwendolyn Mikell 51
3. Louis Eugene King, the Anthropologist Who Never Was
Ira E. Harrison 70
4. Laurence Foster: Anthropologist, Scholar, and Social Advocate
Yolanda Moses 85
5. W. Montague Cobb: Physical Anthropologist, Anatomist, and Activist
Lesley M. Rankin-Hill and Michael L. Blakey 101
