The SSL ‘Book of the Month’ feature highlights a book in our collection that has been chosen by one of our Subject Consultants. This may be a recent addition to our stock or an existing item that we would like to share with you.
October’s Book of the Month was selected by Helen Worrell, Subject Consultant for Anthropology.
McClaurin, Irma (editor)
Black feminist anthropology: theory, politics, praxis, and poetics
25th Anniversary edition
Rutgers University Press, 2024
GN33.8.BLA 2024
Book Overview
In 2001 McClaurin edited a groundbreaking volume that brought together a group of Black feminist Anthropologists to interrogate and evolve the discipline. This 25th Anniversary Edition celebrates this scholarship and provides a new Forward to contextualise these essays and the impact they had on Anthropology.
Reviews
“What is so powerful about these women’s voices is that their theory is based not only on a self-reflexive and autobiographical framework, but it is positioned in a framework that boldly declares its commitment to scholarship, theory-making, and social justice. It is a very important book for anthropology, for feminist studies, for African American studies—and ultimately for all of us.”
Anthropological Quarterly
“Black Feminist Anthropology makes a provocative and important contribution to contemporary Black feminism. For the authors in this book, the premise that scholarship and social justice agendas must inform one another fosters a new anthropology that promises to stimulate new questions for us all.”
Patricia Hill Collins, author of Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice
How can I access it?
We have one lending copy of this book, which is located on our New Books Display Area (around the corner from our Issue Desk). Its shelfmark is GN33.8.BLA 2024.
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