Syllabus
1. Grada Kilomba (Portugal) – Who can speak?
KILOMBA, G. (2010). Who can speak?, In: Plantation memories. Episodes of everyday racism. Münster: Unrast-Verlag.
2. What does anthropology owe to Joseph Auguste Anténor Firmin (Haiti, 1850-1911)?
FIRMIN, J.A.A. (1885/2002). Preface, and Anthropology as a discipline. In: The equality of the human races: positivist anthropology. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. Online
3. Martin Delany (USA, 1812-1885): Principles of Ethnology
DELANY, M. (1879/1880). Principia of Ethnology: the origin of races and color, with an archeological compendium of Ethiopian and Egyptian civilization, from years of careful examination and enquiry. Philadelphia: Harper & Brothers Publishers, second and revised edition. PDF
GILROY, P. (1993). Martin Delany and the Institution of the Fatherland. In: The Black Atlantic: modernity and double consciousness. New York: Verso.
4. Manuel Raymundo Querino (Brazil, 1851-1923): The Rise of Anthropology in Brazil
QUERINO, M.R. (1978). The African contribution to Brazilian civilization. Arizona State University. PDF
GLEDHILL, S. (ed.). (2021). Manuel Querino (1851-1923): An Afro-Brazilian Pioneer in the Age of Scientific Racism. Crediton/UK: Funmilayo Publishing.
5. Zora Neale Hurston (USA, 1891- 1960): Creative Encounters Between Anthropology and Literature
HURSTON, Z.N. (1950/1979). What white publishers won’t print. In: I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive: a Zora Neale Hurston Reader. New York: Feminist Press at CUNY. PDF
HURSTON, Z.N. (1931/2018). Barracoon: the story of the last “Black Cargo”. Edited by Deborah Plant. New York: Amistad.
6. Jean Price-Mars (Haiti, 1876 - 1969): Culture, power, and the Negritude movement
PRICE-MARS, J. (1928/1983). So spoke the uncle. Washington: Three Continents Press, translated by Magdaline W. Shannon.
7. Katherine Dunham (USA, 1909-2006): Dance and the African Diaspora
DUNHAM, K. (1979). Open letter to Black theaters. The Black Scholar, July/August, 10(10). Online
DEE DAS, J. (2017). Preface and the Introduction. In: Katherine Dunham: dance and the African diaspora. New York: Oxford University Press. Online
8. Manuel Zapata Olivella (Colombia, 1920 - 2004): Afro-Atlantic Stories
OLIVELLA, M.Z. (1963/1989). Chambacú: Black Slum. Pittsburgh: Latin American Literary Review Press.
TILLIS, A. (2005). Manuel Zapata Olivella and the “darkening” of Latin America literature. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. PDF
9. Pearl Primus (Trinidad & Tobago, 1919 - 1984): Cultural Bridges
PRIMUS, P. (1993). Cultural bridges. American Journal of Dance Therapy, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring/Summer, Marian Chace Annual Lecture. Online
SCHWARTZ, P.; SCHWARTZ, M. (2011). The Ph.D. In: The dance claimed me: a biography of Pearl Primus. New Haven: Yale University Press. Online
10. Edison Carneiro (Brazil, 1912-1972): Race Relations in Brazil
CARNEIRO, E. (1968). O negro como objeto de ciência. Afro-Ásia, 6-7, pp.91-100. Online
ROSSI, G. (2020). A “Lost Vocation”? The Life and Work of Edison Carneiro, Exponent of Afro‑Brazilian Studies. In: Bérose - Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l'anthropologie, Paris. Online
11. Jomo Kenyatta (Gatundu, Kenya, 1897 - 1978): From Anthropology to Politics
KENYATTA, J. (1938/1961). Preface & Conclusion. In: Facing Mount Kenya. London: Mercury Books. Online
PEATRIK, A.–M. (2021). Jomo Kenyatta’s Facing Mount Kenya and its Rival Ethnographies: The Kikuyu in the Mirror of Colonial Anthropology. In: Bérose - Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l'anthropologie, Paris. Online
12. Virgínia Bicudo (Brazil, 1910-2003): Dialogues Between Anthropology and Psychoanalysis
BICUDO, V. (1945/2010). Introdução e Resumos e hipóteses para pesquisa posterior. In: MAIO, C. (org.). Atitudes raciais de pretos e mulatos em São Paulo. Ed. Sociologia e Política.
DUNKER, C. (2015). Institucionalismo. In: Mal-estar, sofrimento e sintoma: Uma psicopatologia do Brasil entre muros. São Paulo: Boitempo Editorial.
GOMES, J.D. (2013). Os segredos de Virgínia: estudos de atitudes raciais em São Paulo (1945-1955). Tese de Doutorado em Antropologia Social. PPGAS-USP, São Paulo. Online
13. Lélia Gonzalez (Brazil, 1935-1994): Amefrican Perspectives
GONZALEZ, L. (1988). For an Afro-Latin-American Feminism. Feminist Archives. Online
14. Archie Mafeje (South Africa, 1936-2007): The Ideology of Tribalism and the Colonial Anthropology
MAFEJE, A. (1971). The Ideology of Tribalism. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 9(2), 253-261. Online
NYOKA, B. (2020). The Social and Political Thought of Archie Mafeje. New York: NYU Press.
15. Safi Faye (Senegal, 1943-2023): Ethnographic Lenses
FAYE, S. (1996). Mossane. Senegal, 105 minutes (film).
FAYE, S. (1976). Contribution à l'étude de la vie religieuse d'un village sérère, Fadial (Sénegal). Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Thèse.
16. Leith Mullings (Jamaica, 1945-2020): For an Antiracist Anthropology
MULLINGS, L. (2005). Interrogating racism: toward an antiracist Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology, 34(1). PDF