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Vol. 37 No. 3 (2022) Colloquy

Centering Black Women: A Black Feminist Critique of Mainstream Anthropology from the Margins of an HBCU

By Erica Lorraine Williams

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Williams, Erica. 2022. “Centering Black Women: A Black Feminist Critique of Mainstream Anthropology from the Margins of an HBCU.” Cultural Anthropology 37, no. 3: 404–411. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca37.3.04.
https://doi.org/10.14506/ca37.3.04

Abstract

Anthropology must urgently move away from the mainstream canon that excludes the groundbreaking work of Black women anthropologists. I argue that a Historically Black College for women offers a unique site in which one can center Black women in anthropology in novel ways. I offer specific examples of texts that I teach by Black women authors within and beyond anthropology, and the pedagogical strategies I use to challenge students to re(write) anthropology from the margins.

Keywords

citation; feminist anthropology; HBCUs; canon

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