Erica Lorraine Williams
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 84295 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Erica Lorraine Williams |
| PRENOMES | Erica Lorraine |
| SOBRENOME | Williams |
| ASSINATURA | WILLIAMS E L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Spelman College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0909-2063 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
African American Anthropology
This essay explores the history and origins of African American Anthropology. It asks how we can think about an anthropology made for and by African Americans? It sheds light on early African American pioneers in anthropology, and the key ideas, main lines, debates and developments of African American anthropology
Kamala Kempadoo's influence on sexual economies scholarship in South Asia and Latin America
In this article we outline Kamala Kempadoo's influence on research on sex work, transactional sex, and sexual economies in South Asia and Latin America, focusing on Brazil and India, the authors’ respective areas of expertise. We draw on our own research arcs to show how Kempadoo's work enabled generations of ethnographic and ethnographically informed research on sexual commerce that centered questions of labor and critiques of policing and impov…
Speechifying
Speechifying collects the most important speeches of Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole—noted Black feminist anthropologist, the first Black female president of Spelman College, former director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art, and former chair and president of the National Council of Negro Women. A powerful and eloquent orator, Dr. Cole demonstrates her commitment to the success of historically Black colleges and universiti…
Speechifying
Black Travel Writing
Centering Black Women
Anthropology must urgently move away from the mainstream canon that excludes the groundbreaking work of Black women anthropologists. I argue that a Historically Black College for women offers a unique site in which one can center Black women in anthropology in novel ways. I offer specific examples of texts that I teach by Black women authors within and beyond anthropology, and the pedagogical strategies I use to challenge students to re(write) an…
Cite Black Women
This collective statement provides a general overview of the Cite Black Women movement, its principles, intellectual genealogy, charge, and history. It is both a reflection and an outline of the project's primary principles, hopes, and dreams
Black Girl Abroad
This article explores the feminist potential and possibilities of Black women's travel writing. The author reflects on her travel stories, in dialogue with other Black women's travel memoirs, to make two arguments: (1) we must expand and deepen our citational practices in anthropology to critically engage more seriously with Black women's work, especially those who have been marginalized or excluded from the “canon”; (2) international travel is c…
The practical ethics of Johnnetta Betsch Cole
In the Summer of 2018 I was honored to interview Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole at the Democratizing Knowledge Summer Institute held at Spelman College. This candid conversation is a testament to Dr. Cole's black feminist praxis – to her commitment to “living a feminist life” (Ahmed 2017). It also reveals how her myriad life experiences ‐ her praxis as a scholar, a mentor, a mother, a descendant of notable ancestors, an institution builder, and more –…
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology
Niara Sudarkasa
This chapter explores Niara Sudarkasa’s trajectory as a scholar, activist, and higher education administrator. Born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and educated at Fisk University, Oberlin College, and Columbia University, Sudarkasa is an Africanist who conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Nigeria and other West African countries. She has made significant contributions to scholarship on feminist anthropology, African Studies, gender and migration, and…
The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology
"After the scholars profiled in African-American pioneers in anthropology, a second generation of African American anthropologists trained in the late 1950s and 1960s. Expected to study their own or similar cultures, these specialists often focused on the African diaspora but in some cases ranged farther afield both geographically and intellectually. Yet their work remains largely unknown to colleagues and students. This volume collects intellect…
The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology
The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology
This volume brings together emerging and leading scholars in the field of anthropology to reflect on the intellectual trajectories of fifteen African American anthropologists who earned their doctorates in anthropology between 1960 and 1969. Following in the footsteps of African American Pioneers in Anthropology (Harrison and Harrison 1999), this volume documents the quest for knowledge, respect, truth and value in the inspiring work of the next …
Sex Tourism in Bahia
For nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism destination. As the first full-length ethnography of sex tourism in Brazil, this pioneering study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that involves a range of activities and erotic connections, from sex work to romantic transnational relationships. The book explores sex tourism in the Brazilian state of Bahia from the perspectives of …
Sex work and exclusion in the tourist districts of Salvador, Brazil
Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia, in the Northeastern region of Brazil, is composed of racialized, gendered, and sexualized spaces in which certain people are welcome, while others are marginalized and excluded. Praça da Sé, in the Centro Histórico, is a major site of both the local commercial sex industry and the tourist industry in Salvador. With their public visibility in sites heavily frequented by tourists, sex workers in Salvador rev…
Women's Studies and Sexuality Studies at HBCUs
Women'sStudies and Sexuality Studies at HBCUs: The Audre Lorde Projectat Spelman College Erica Lorraine Williams A NATIONAL DISCUSSION ON INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES in Women's studies and sexuality studies would be remiss if it did not consider the specificities of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States. Here, I highlight the efforts that the Women's Research and Resource Center and its Audre Lorde Project at Spelman…
The 2006 New Orleans Mayoral Election
On Monday, August 29, 2005, the Gulf Coast of the United States was hit by the sixth most destructive Atlantic hurricane on record, Hurricane Katrina. Katrina formed in the Bahamas on August 23 and entered the Gulf of Mexico two days later, on the twenty-fifth (Knabb 2005). Twelve hours after entering the gulf, Katrina grew from a Category 3 to a Category 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, with winds up to 160 miles per hour. Katrina made landf…
Marriage, divorce, and distress in northeast Brazil
Ethno-Erotic Economies
This compelling ethnography explores issues of globalisation, tourism, commodification, kinship, and belonging in Kenya. Based on 25 months of fieldwork over 10 years (2005–15) in Samburu villages
The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology
This volume brings together emerging and leading scholars in the field of anthropology to reflect on the intellectual trajectories of fifteen African American anthropologists who earned their doctorates in anthropology between 1960 and 1969. Following in the footsteps of African American Pioneers in Anthropology (Harrison and Harrison 1999), this volume documents the quest for knowledge, respect, truth and value in the inspiring work of the next …
Sex work and exclusion in the tourist districts of Salvador, Brazil
Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia, in the Northeastern region of Brazil, is composed of racialized, gendered, and sexualized spaces in which certain people are welcome, while others are marginalized and excluded. Praça da Sé, in the Centro Histórico, is a major site of both the local commercial sex industry and the tourist industry in Salvador. With their public visibility in sites heavily frequented by tourists, sex workers in Salvador rev…
Marriage, divorce, and distress in northeast Brazil
Ethno-Erotic Economies
This compelling ethnography explores issues of globalisation, tourism, commodification, kinship, and belonging in Kenya. Based on 25 months of fieldwork over 10 years (2005–15) in Samburu villages
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
Women's Studies and Sexuality Studies at HBCUs
Women'sStudies and Sexuality Studies at HBCUs: The Audre Lorde Projectat Spelman College Erica Lorraine Williams A NATIONAL DISCUSSION ON INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES in Women's studies and sexuality studies would be remiss if it did not consider the specificities of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States. Here, I highlight the efforts that the Women's Research and Resource Center and its Audre Lorde Project at Spelman…
The 2006 New Orleans Mayoral Election
On Monday, August 29, 2005, the Gulf Coast of the United States was hit by the sixth most destructive Atlantic hurricane on record, Hurricane Katrina. Katrina formed in the Bahamas on August 23 and entered the Gulf of Mexico two days later, on the twenty-fifth (Knabb 2005). Twelve hours after entering the gulf, Katrina grew from a Category 3 to a Category 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, with winds up to 160 miles per hour. Katrina made landf…
Sex Tourism in Bahia
For nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism destination. As the first full-length ethnography of sex tourism in Brazil, this pioneering study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that involves a range of activities and erotic connections, from sex work to romantic transnational relationships. The book explores sex tourism in the Brazilian state of Bahia from the perspectives of …
Sex work and exclusion in the tourist districts of Salvador, Brazil
Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia, in the Northeastern region of Brazil, is composed of racialized, gendered, and sexualized spaces in which certain people are welcome, while others are marginalized and excluded. Praça da Sé, in the Centro Histórico, is a major site of both the local commercial sex industry and the tourist industry in Salvador. With their public visibility in sites heavily frequented by tourists, sex workers in Salvador rev…
Women's Studies and Sexuality Studies at HBCUs
Women'sStudies and Sexuality Studies at HBCUs: The Audre Lorde Projectat Spelman College Erica Lorraine Williams A NATIONAL DISCUSSION ON INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES in Women's studies and sexuality studies would be remiss if it did not consider the specificities of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States. Here, I highlight the efforts that the Women's Research and Resource Center and its Audre Lorde Project at Spelman…
The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology
Niara Sudarkasa
This chapter explores Niara Sudarkasa’s trajectory as a scholar, activist, and higher education administrator. Born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and educated at Fisk University, Oberlin College, and Columbia University, Sudarkasa is an Africanist who conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Nigeria and other West African countries. She has made significant contributions to scholarship on feminist anthropology, African Studies, gender and migration, and…
The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology
"After the scholars profiled in African-American pioneers in anthropology, a second generation of African American anthropologists trained in the late 1950s and 1960s. Expected to study their own or similar cultures, these specialists often focused on the African diaspora but in some cases ranged farther afield both geographically and intellectually. Yet their work remains largely unknown to colleagues and students. This volume collects intellect…
The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology
The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology
This volume brings together emerging and leading scholars in the field of anthropology to reflect on the intellectual trajectories of fifteen African American anthropologists who earned their doctorates in anthropology between 1960 and 1969. Following in the footsteps of African American Pioneers in Anthropology (Harrison and Harrison 1999), this volume documents the quest for knowledge, respect, truth and value in the inspiring work of the next …
The practical ethics of Johnnetta Betsch Cole
In the Summer of 2018 I was honored to interview Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole at the Democratizing Knowledge Summer Institute held at Spelman College. This candid conversation is a testament to Dr. Cole's black feminist praxis – to her commitment to “living a feminist life” (Ahmed 2017). It also reveals how her myriad life experiences ‐ her praxis as a scholar, a mentor, a mother, a descendant of notable ancestors, an institution builder, and more –…
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
Cite Black Women
This collective statement provides a general overview of the Cite Black Women movement, its principles, intellectual genealogy, charge, and history. It is both a reflection and an outline of the project's primary principles, hopes, and dreams
Black Girl Abroad
This article explores the feminist potential and possibilities of Black women's travel writing. The author reflects on her travel stories, in dialogue with other Black women's travel memoirs, to make two arguments: (1) we must expand and deepen our citational practices in anthropology to critically engage more seriously with Black women's work, especially those who have been marginalized or excluded from the “canon”; (2) international travel is c…
Centering Black Women
Anthropology must urgently move away from the mainstream canon that excludes the groundbreaking work of Black women anthropologists. I argue that a Historically Black College for women offers a unique site in which one can center Black women in anthropology in novel ways. I offer specific examples of texts that I teach by Black women authors within and beyond anthropology, and the pedagogical strategies I use to challenge students to re(write) an…
Speechifying
Speechifying collects the most important speeches of Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole—noted Black feminist anthropologist, the first Black female president of Spelman College, former director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art, and former chair and president of the National Council of Negro Women. A powerful and eloquent orator, Dr. Cole demonstrates her commitment to the success of historically Black colleges and universiti…
Speechifying
Black Travel Writing
Marriage, divorce, and distress in northeast Brazil
Ethno-Erotic Economies
This compelling ethnography explores issues of globalisation, tourism, commodification, kinship, and belonging in Kenya. Based on 25 months of fieldwork over 10 years (2005–15) in Samburu villages
Kamala Kempadoo's influence on sexual economies scholarship in South Asia and Latin America
In this article we outline Kamala Kempadoo's influence on research on sex work, transactional sex, and sexual economies in South Asia and Latin America, focusing on Brazil and India, the authors’ respective areas of expertise. We draw on our own research arcs to show how Kempadoo's work enabled generations of ethnographic and ethnographically informed research on sexual commerce that centered questions of labor and critiques of policing and impov…
African American Anthropology
This essay explores the history and origins of African American Anthropology. It asks how we can think about an anthropology made for and by African Americans? It sheds light on early African American pioneers in anthropology, and the key ideas, main lines, debates and developments of African American anthropology
Sociology (14 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Anthropology (9 obras) · History (7 obras) · Anthropology (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (4 obras) · Sex work and related issues (4 obras) · African american (3 obras) · Art history (3 obras)