The second generation of African American pioneers in anthropology / edited by Ira E. Harrison, Deborah Johnson-Simon, and Erica Lorraine Williams.

Other author Harrison, Ira E., editor.
Other author Johnson-Simon, Deborah, editor.
Other author Williams, Erica Lorraine, editor.
Format Book
PublicationUrbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Copyright Date©2018
Descriptionxxvi, 227 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
Subjects
Anthropology--United States. --History.
Ethnology--United States. --History.

Contents Introduction: Celebrating triumphs, overcoming challenges, and charting a course for institutional transformation / Erica Lorraine Williams, Deborah Johnson-Simon, and Ira E. Harrison -- James Lowell Gibbs Jr : a life of educational achievement and services / Dallas L. Browne -- Charles Preston Warren II : military forensic anthropologist, scholar, and applied scientist / Alice Baldwin-Jones -- William Alfred Shack : an unacknowledged giant / Dallas L. Browne -- Diane K. Lewis and the transformation of anthropology : an ideology of radical change / Cheryl R. Rodriguez -- Delmos Jones and the end of neutrality / Elgin L. Klugh -- Niara Sudarkasa : inspiring Black women's leadership / Erica Lorraine Williams -- Johnnetta Betsch Cole : eradicating multiple systems of oppression / Riché J. Daniel Barnes -- John Langston Gwaltney : the development of a core Black ethnography and museology / Deborah Johnson-Simon -- Ira E. Harrison : activist, scholar, and visionary pioneer / Alisha R. Winn -- Audrey Smedley : a pioneers' pioneer anthropologist / Janis Faye Hutchinson -- George Clement Bond : anthropologist, Africanist, educator, and visionary / Rachel Watkins -- Oliver Osborne : African American nurse-anthropologist pioneer / Bertin M. Louis Jr. -- Anselme Remy and the anthropology of liberation / Angela McMillan Howell -- Vera Mae Green : Quaker roots and applied anthropology / Antoinette Jackson -- Claudia Mitchell-Kernan : sociolinguistic anthropologist, administrator, and innovator / Betty J. Harris.
Abstract "After the scholars profiled in African-American pioneers in anthropology, a second generation of African American anthropologists trained in the late 1950s and 1960s. Expected to study their own or similar cultures, these specialists often focused on the African diaspora but in some cases ranged farther 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"--Publisher's website.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2018046475
ISBN9780252042027 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN0252042026 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN9780252083716 paperback alkaline paper
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