Research Catalog

Title

Power, race, and culture : the evolution of a black anthropologist / Janis Faye Hutchinson.

Author

Hutchinson, Janis Faye, 1953-

Publication

Lanham, MD : Hamilton Books, 2005

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Details

Description

xii, 102 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

The author examines becoming an anthropologist from the perspective of a black female who grew up in the South during the Civil Rights era. It intertwines her childhood experiences and socialization in a segregated South with her academic experiences and training in anthropology to examine race and reace relations in the United States. She specifically looks at the impact of the concept of race on her professional development and provides a modern outlook on diversity. --Publisher.

Subjects

• Autobiographie
• Biographies
• Racism in anthropology > United States
• United States > Race relations
• Power (Social sciences) > United States
• Diversity in the workplace > United States
• Occupations and race
• Hutchinson, Janis Faye, 1953-
• Women anthropologists > United States > Biography
• African American anthropologists > Biography
• Anthropologists > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Autobiographie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-97) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface: A Collision Course vii -- Chapter 1 Magic and Mayhem 1 -- Chapter 2 Promise in the Air 9 -- Chapter 3 Light, Bright, Damn Near ... 19 -- Chapter 4 Plantation Work Ethics 25 -- Chapter 5 Segregation on the Sabbath 31 -- Chapter 6 A World of Trouble 39 -- Chapter 7 Feminism in Absentia 45 -- Chapter 8 From Embryo to Neophyte 57 -- Chapter 9 What Price a Degree? 71 -- Chapter 10 Other Worlds 79 -- Conclusion: Evolvement 89.

ISBN

0761831363

OCLC

• 61697298
• SCSB-12604199

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library