African-American Pioneers in AnthropologyIra E. Harrison, Faye V. Harrison, Faye Venetia Harrison 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 African-American studies and biography. The lives and work of: 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 |
Contents
Anthropology African Americans and the Emancipation of a Subjugated Knowledge | 3 |
Caroline Bond Day Pioneer Black Physical Anthropologist | 29 |
Feminism and Black Culture in the Ethnography ofZora Neale Hurston Gwendolyn Mikell | 43 |
Louis Eugene King the Anthropologist Who Never Was Ira E Harrison | 62 |
Laurence Foster Anthropologist Scholar and Social Advocate | 77 |
W Montague Cobb Physical Anthropologist Anatomist and Activist | 93 |
Katherine Dunham Anthropologist Artist Humanist | 129 |
Ellen Irene Diggs Coming of Age in Atlanta Havana and Baltimore | 146 |
Across Class and Culture Allison Davis and His Works | 160 |
St Clair Drake Scholar and Activist | 183 |
Arthur Huff Fauset Campaigner for Social Justice A Symphony of Diversity | 205 |
Skeletons in the Anthropological Closet The Life and Work of William S Willis Jr | 235 |
Hubert B Ross the Anthropologist Who Was | 257 |
The Continuing Dialogue The Life and Work of Elliot Skinner as Exemplar of the AfricanAmericanAfrican Dialectic | 264 |
Contributors | 283 |
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