Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. Foreword xiii
4. Preface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition: Creating a Canon and Building a Legacy: Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Black Feminist Anthropology xvii
5. Poem for My Black Feminist Anthropology Sistahs Today and Forever xxv
6. Preface to the 2001 Edition xxxi
7. Introduction: Forging a Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics of Black Feminist Anthropology 1
8. 1 Seeking the Ancestors: Forging a Black Feminist Tradition in Anthropology 24
9. 2 Theorizing a Black Feminist Self in Anthropology: Toward an Autoethnographic Approach 49
10. 3 A Passion for Sameness: Encountering a Black Feminist Self in Fieldwork in the Dominican Republic 77
11. 4 Disciplining the Black Female Body: Learning Feminism in Africa and the United States 102
12. 5 Negotiating Identity and Black Feminist Politics in Caribbean Research 126
13. 6 Angela M. Gilliam A Black Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Commodification of Women in the New Global Culture 150
14. 7 Biomedical Ethics, Gender, and Ethnicity: Implications for Black Feminist Anthropology 187
15. 8 Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race, and Feminism 211
16. 9 A Homegirl Goes Home: Black Feminism and the Lure of Native Anthropology 233
17. Notes on Contributors 259
18. Notes on the Cover Art and Author Photograph 265
19. Photo Credits 267
20. Index 269