African-American Pioneers in Anthropology

This pathbreaking collection
of intellectual biographies is the first to probe the careers of thirteen
early African-American anthropologists, detailing both their achievements
and their struggle with the latent and sometimes blatant racism of the
times. Invaluable to historians of anthropology, this collection will
also be useful to readers interested in African-American studies and biography.

The lives and work of: Caroline
Bond Day, Zora Neale Hurston, Louis Eugene King, Laurence Foster, W. Montague
Cobb, Katherine Dunham, Ellen Irene Diggs, Allison Davis, St. Clair Drake,
Arthur Huff Fauset, William S. Willis Jr., Hubert Barnes Ross, Elliot
Skinner