The Blacklight Project and Public Scholarship
Young Black Women Perform Against and Through the Boundaries of Anthropology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2280869 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aimee Meredith Cox (0000-0002-2587-245X, corresponding author), Aimee Cox |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-64 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transforming Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1051-0559 • E-ISSN: 1548-7466 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1548-7466.2009.01041.x |
| OpenAlex | W1999325410 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 8 |
In this essay, I use the resistance work of residents at the Fresh Start shelter for young women in Detroit and BlackLight, an arts‐based social justice project that emerged from the shelter, as the frame to consider several tensions within public anthropology. I am particularly concerned with what is at stake in the processes of both defining and practicing public anthropology for minority scholars working against the traditional boundaries of the academy and the public. In addition, I question how “the public” when used to signify low‐income urban communities of color guides the racialization of spaces and corresponding possibilities and limitations for African Americans within the public sphere. The work of the young women of BlackLight ultimately presents one model for mobilizing publicly engaged anthropology, and also calls for a reconsideration of power and its multiple, tricky manifestations in the public. This reevaluation is especially critical in relation to the roles public anthropologists play in the various contexts that criss‐cross the borders that circumscribe the community and the academic
Political science · Power (physics · Public sphere · Race (biology · Racialization · Resistance (ecology · Scholarship · Social justice · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Ecology · Gender Studies · Law · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2020 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |