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name: Bianca C. Williams
about: Bianca C. Williams is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She earned her B.A. and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, and a Graduate Certificate in African &amp; African American Studies, from Duke University. In her book, The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism (Duke U Press, 2018), Williams examines how African American women use travel to Jamaica and the Internet as tools for pursuing happiness and critiquing American racism and sexism. She argues that pursuing happiness is a political project for Black women. Additionally, Williams has written about “radical honesty” as pedagogy in the volume, Race, Equity, and the Learning Environment (edited by Tu Bianca C. Williams is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She earned her B.A. and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, and a Graduate Certificate in African &amp; African American Studies, from Duke University. In her book, The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism (Duke U Press, 2018), Williams examines how African American women use travel to Jamaica and the Internet as tools for pursuing happiness and critiquing American racism and sexism. She argues that pursuing happiness is a political project for Black women. Additionally, Williams has written about “radical honesty” as pedagogy in the volume, Race, Equity, and the Learning Environment (edited by Tuitt, Haynes, and Stewart 2016), and published on #BlackLivesMatter, anthropological writing, and tourism in the journals Souls and Cultural Anthropology, and on the blogs Savage Minds and Anthropoliteia. ...more