Background
Harrison, Faye Venetia was born on November 25, 1951 in Norfolk, Virginia. Daughter of James and Odelia (Harper) Harrison.
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Outsider Within presents an approach to critically reconstructing the anthropology discipline to better encompass issues of gender and race. Among the nine key objectives in the field that Faye V. Harrison advocates are researching in an ethically and politically responsible manner, promoting greater diversity in the discipline, rethinking theory, and committing to a genuine multicultural dialogue. In drawing from materials developed during her distinguished twenty-five year career in Caribbean and African American studies, Harrison analyzes anthropology’s limits and possibilities from an African American woman’s perspective, while also recognizing similarities between peoples, despite social, cultural, and political differences. In seeking to productively engage anthropologists of diverse geographical, cultural, and national origins, Harrison challenges them to work together to transcend stark gender, racial, and national hierarchies.
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Presents an approach to critically reconstructing the anthropology discipline to better encompass issues of gender and race. This book analyzes anthropology's limits and possibilities from an African American woman's perspective.
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anthropologist educator writer
Harrison, Faye Venetia was born on November 25, 1951 in Norfolk, Virginia. Daughter of James and Odelia (Harper) Harrison.
AB, Brown University, 1974; Master of Arts, Stanford University, 1977; Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1982.
Assistant professor anthropology University Louisville, 1983-1989. Associate professor University Tennessee, Knoxville, 1989-1997, professor, 1999—2004, Lindsay Young professor in humanities, 2002—2004. Professor, graduate director women's studies University South Carolina, Columbia, 1997-1999.
Professor anthropology and African American studies University Florida, Gainesville, since 2004, director African-American studies, 2007—2010. Adjunct associate professor U.Binghamton, State University of New York, 1996—1998. Adjunct professor Union Institute and University, 2002—2005.
International associate Center Culture, Identity, and Education, University British Columbia, since 2007.
(Essay posted on Savage Minds, anthropology blog, December...)
( Outsider Within presents an approach to critically reco...)
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(Posts about Decolonizing Anthropology written by Joslyn O.)
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Author: Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age, 2008. Editor, contributing author: Black Folks in Cities Here and There, 1988, Decolonizing Anthropology, 1991, second edition, 1997. Editor, contributing author 3rd edition, 2010.Editor, contributing author: W.E.B. DuBois and Anthropology, 1992, American Anthropologist Contemporary Forum: Race and Racism, 1998, African-American Pioneers in Anthropology, 1999, Resisting Racism and Xenophobia, 2005, associate editor: Urban Anthropology, 1992—2010, consultant editor: Women and Aging, 1990-1996, Identities: Global Studies of Culture and Power, since 1992. Member editorial committee Critique of Anthropology, 1995-1999, Annual Review Anthropology, 1995—2000, American Anthropologist, 2000-2005, member editorial board University Tennessee Press, 1996-1997, member advisory committee Womanist Theory and Research, 1990—2004, Transforming Anthropology, 1990—2009. Author, performer: (one woman show) The Other Side of Paradise.Three Women. One Struggle. Contributor articles to professional journals & chapters in anthologies.
Member National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, since 1970, Black Women Organized for Power, Lousiville, 1984—1986, Alliance Against Women's Oppression, Lousiville, 1988—1989, E. Tennessee Coalition Against State Killing, 1995—1997, 1999—2004, Southern Human Rights Organizers Network, since 2000, organizer Kentucky Rainbow Coalition, Lousiville, 1987—1989, member Sister Song Reproductive Health & Rights Collective, since 2002, member advisory board Knoxville Roman Catholic Diocese's Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation, 1996—1997, St. Francis House (for homeless), since 2010, Member of Commission World Anthropologies, International Union Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (co-chair commission anthropology women 1993-1998, chair commission anthropology women 1998—2009, member-at-large, executive committee since 2003), Association Black Anthropologists (president 1989-1991, Legacy Scholar award 2010), American Anthropological Association (executive board directors 1990-1991, 1999—2001, annual meeting executive program chair 2007, member communications World Anthropologies since 2007).
Married William Louis Conwill, May 17, 1980. Children: Giles Harrison-Conwill, L. Mondlane Harrison-Conwill, Justin Harrison-Conwill.