The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology

Ira E Harrison editor Deborah Johnson-Simon editor Erica Lorraine Williams editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Published:15th Nov '18

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After the pioneers, the second generation of African American anthropologists trained in the late 1950s and 1960s. Expected to study their own or similar cultures, these scholars often focused on the African diaspora but in some cases they also ranged further 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

"This volume is a significant contribution to the study of subaltern traditions in the history of anthropology." --Transforming Anthropology
"Presents the next generation of scholars who continued to 'keep on keeping on' in departments, among fellow students, and with faculty who thought the natives should be located in the field and not in their midst. Essential for the still lonely Black, Brown, Asian, or Latinx graduate student who is trying to make their way in the discipline."--A. Lynn Bolles, professor emerita, University of Maryland, College Park

ISBN: 9780252083716

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm

Weight: 367g

256 pages