African-American pioneers in anthropology / edited by Ira E. Harrison and Faye V. Harrison.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1999], ©1999.

296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Caroline Bond Day : pioneer black physical anthropologist / Hubert B. Ross, Amelia Marie Adams, Lynne Mallory Williams -- Feminism and black culture in the ethnography of Zora Neale Hurston / Gwendolyn Mikell -- Louis Eugene King, the anthropologist who never was / Ira E. Harrison -- Laurence Foster : anthropologist, scholar, and social advocate / Yolanda Moses -- W. Montague Cobb : physical anthropologist, anatomist, and activist / Lesley M. Rankin-Hill, Michael L. Blakey -- Katherine Dunham : anthropologist, artist, humanist / Joyce Aschenbrenner -- Ellen Irene Diggs : coming of age in Atlanta, Havana, and Baltimore / A. Lynn Bolles -- Across class and culture : Allison Davis and his works / Dallas L. Browne -- St. Clair Drake : scholar and activist / Willie L. Baber -- Arthur Huff Fauset, campaigner for social justice : a symphony of diversity / Carole H. Carpenter -- Skeletons in the anthropological closet : the life and work of William S. Willis Jr. / Peggy Reeves Sanday -- Hubert B. Ross, the anthropologist who was / Ira E. Harrison -- The continuing dialogue : the life and work of Elliot Skinner as exemplar of the African-American/African dialectic / Cheryl Mwaria.