Week 8a: (Some) Ancestors of Activist Anthropology: Drake, Remy, Hurston

Monday, October 18

For today, prepare:

  • Read (19 pages)
    Gordon, Edmund T. 1991. “Anthropology and Liberation.” In Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further toward an Anthropology of Liberation, edited by Faye V. Harrison, 150–69. Arlington: Association of Black Anthropologists and American Anthropological Association.
  • Read (12 pages)
    Baber, Willie L. 1999. “St. Clair Drake: Scholar and Activist.” In African-American Pioneers in Anthropology, edited by Ira E. Harrison and Faye Venetia Harrison, 191–212. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  • Read (12 pages)
    McMillan Howell, Angela. 2018. “Anselme Remy and the Anthropology of Liberation.” In The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology, edited by Ira E. Harrison, Deborah Johnson-Simon, and Erica Lorraine Williams, 174–90. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  • Read (5 pages)
    Remy, Anselme. 1976. “Anthropology: For Whom and What?” The Black Scholar 7 (7): 12–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.1976.11413811.