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

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"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 fa...

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Other Authors: Harrison, Ira E. (Editor)
Johnson-Simon, Deborah (Editor)
Williams, Erica Lorraine (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Anthropology > United States > History.
Ethnology > United States > History.
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxvi, 227 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.