Anti‐Bodies, Anti‐Body

A Black Feminist Call and Response: Introduction

Dados 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)
Ano2025
Volume127
Fascículo4
Páginas861-864
Data de publicação2025-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/aman.70016
OpenAlexW4413885952
IdiomaEN
Referências 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