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Title The second generation of African American pioneers in anthropology / edited by Ira E. Harrison, Deborah Johnson-Simon, and Erica Lorraine Williams
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]

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Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction. Celebrating Triumphs, Overcoming Challenges, and Charting a Course for Institutional Transformation; 1. James Lowell Gibbs Jr.: A Life of Educational Achievement and Service; 2. Charles Preston Warren II: Military Forensic Anthropologist, Scholar, and Applied Scientist; 3. William Alfred Shack: An Unacknowledged Giant; 4. Diane K. Lewis and the Transformation of Anthropology: An Ideology of Radical Change; 5. Delmos Jones and the End of Neutrality; 6. Niara Sudarkasa: Inspiring Black Women's Leadership
7. Johnnetta Betsch Cole: Eradicating Multiple Systems of Oppression8. John Langston Gwaltney: The Development of a Core Black Ethnography and Museology; 9. Ira E. Harrison: Activist, Scholar, and Visionary Pioneer; 10. Audrey Smedley: A Pioneers' Pioneer Anthropologist; 11. George Clement Bond: Anthropologist, Africanist, Educator, and Visionary; 12. Oliver Osborne: African American Nurse-Anthropologist Pioneer; 13. Anselme Remy and the Anthropology of Liberation; 14. Vera Mae Green: Quaker Roots and Applied Anthropology
15. Claudia Mitchell-Kernan: Sociolinguistic Anthropologist, Administrator, and InnovatorNotes on Contributors; Index
Summary "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 Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Anthropology -- United States -- History
Ethnology -- United States -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
Anthropology
Ethnology
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Harrison, Ira E., editor
Johnson-Simon, Deborah, editor
Williams, Erica Lorraine, editor
ISBN 9780252050763
0252050762