Anti‐Bodies, Anti‐Body

A Black Feminist Call and Response: Introduction

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7146397
AutoresChelsey R Carter (0000-0002-9176-4289, School of Public Health Yale University New Haven Connecticut USA), Jallicia Jolly (0000-0002-5778-3320, American Studies and Black Studies Departments Amherst College Amherst Massachusetts USA)
Año2025
Volumen127
Número4
Páginas861-864
Fecha de publicación2025-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/aman.70016
OpenAlexW4413885952
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas17

This essay introduces the special section Anti‐bodies, Anti‐body: A Black Feminist Call and Response , a collaborative Black feminist intervention that emerges from an interdisciplinary dialogue grounded in anthropological critique. Building on anthropologist Dána‐Ain Davis's concept of “Black anti‐bodies”—bodies caught in the paradox of susceptibility and immunity—we explore how Black and “Othered” bodies are positioned at the intersection of vulnerability and resistance. We frame “anti‐body” as both analytic and praxis—one that challenges dominant epistemologies and foregrounds the survival strategies, care work, and resistance practices of groups that are slotted as Other. The “call and response” format contextualizes the development of the special section and outlines how the collective essays from cultural and medical anthropologists, Black feminist ethnographers, medical humanists, artists, and educators uncover how anti‐bodies function not only as sites of harm but also as political and imaginative resources. We invite readers to engage with anti‐bodies as a frame for unraveling intersecting oppressions and envisioning liberatory futures across disciplines and communities

Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Race, History, and American Society