Black Feminist Anthropology
Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics is a 2001 collection of essays from nine black feminist anthropologists. The book was edited by Irma McClaurin, who also wrote the collection's foreword and one of the essays. It was first published on 1 August 2001 through Rutgers University Press and focuses on the essay writers' personal experiences as black women in the world and how that influenced their anthropological practices. Reception. Critical reception for "Black Feminist Anthropology" has largely been positive, for example: Another reviewer, for "American Anthropologist", was somewhat critical of the work, commenting that  he would have liked to have seen more information and discussion in the book, using Karla Slocum's conversational interview style as an example and stated that she did not explain whether it mattered that she was not, in fact, a market woman who had to compete with her informants in the marketplace, nor did she have to survive on the proceeds of her labor there. Like her professional colleagues, she chose to be a participant-observer and could choose to terminate the experiment at will."