Prof. Faye V. Harrison

University of Illinois, USA

Email: fvharrsn@illinois.edu

Qualifications

1982 Ph.D., Anthropology, Stanford University

1977 M.A., Anthropology, Stanford University

1974 B.A., Anthropology, Brown University

Publications (selected)

1. Engaging Theory in the New Millennium. In: Companion to Contemporary Anthropology. Simon Coleman, Susan B. Hyatt, and Ann Kingsolver, eds. New York: Routledge. (in press)
2. Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives on Global Apartheid, Environmental Injustice, and Women’s Activism for Sustainable Well-Being.  In Gender, Livelihood and Environment: How Women Manage Resources.  Subhadra Mitra Channa and Marilyn Porter, eds. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Private Limited. (in press)
3. Learning from St. Clair Drake: (Re)Mapping Diasporic Connections. Journal of African American History 98(3): 446-454. Symposium—St. Clair Drake: The Making of a Scholar-Activist. 2013
4. Race, Security, and Human Rights. In At Close Range: The Curious Case of Trayvon Martin.10th Annual Spring Lecture & Symposium, Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations, Levin College of Law. UF Law Scholarship Repository, 2013
5. Writer, Ethnographer, Performing Artist: A Documentary Lens on Zora Neale Hurston’s Interdisciplinarity. Fire!!! The Multi-Media Journal of Black Studies, 1(Summer/Winter 2): 139-150, 2012
6. Dismantling Anthropology’s Domestic and International Peripheries. World Anthropologies Network (WAN) E-Journal, Number 6/July: 87-109, 2012
7. Racism in the Academy: Toward a Multi-Methodological Agenda for Anthropological Engagement. In Racism in the Academy: The New Millennium. Audrey Smedley and Janis F. Hutchinson, eds. Pp. 13-32. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association, 2012
8. Building Black Diaspora Networks and Meshworks for Knowledge, Justice, Peace, and Human Rights. In Afrodescendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas. Bernd Reiter and Kimberly Eison Simmons, eds. Pp, 3-17. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012
9. Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further toward an Anthropology for Liberation. (Ed.) Third edition. Arlington, Virginia: American Anthropological Association, 2010
10. Reconciling Perspectives on the World’s Diverse Women and Cultures of Gender: Toward NewSyntheses for the 21st Century. In Anthropology Now: Essays by the Scientific Commissions of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences & History of the IUAES. Peter J.M. Nas and Zhang Jijiao, eds. Pp. 103-116. Beijing, China: Intellectual Property Publishing House, 2009
11. Building Solidarities for Human Rights: Diasporic Women as Agents of Transformation. InGendering Global Transformations: Gender, Culture, Race, and Identity. Chima J. Korieh and Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika, eds. Pp. 17-28. New York: Routledge, 2009
12. Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008
13. The Politics of Antiracism and Social Justice: A Perspective from a Human Rights Network in the U.S. South. North American Dialogue 12(1):8-17, 2008
14. Resisting Racism: Global Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Human Rights. (Ed.) Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2005
15. Global Apartheid, Foreign Policy, and Human Rights. Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 4(3): 48-68, 2002
16. Introduction: Expanding the Discourse on “Race.” American Anthropologist 100(3):609-31.Contemporary Forum on Race and Racism, 1998
17. The Gendered Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment: A View from Jamaica. In Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life.Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragoné, andPatricia Zavella, eds. pp. 451-68. New York: Routledge, 1997
18. The Persistent Power of "Race" in the Cultural and Political Economy of Racism. Annual Review of Anthropology 24:47-74, 1995
19. The Du Boisian Legacy in Anthropology. Critique of Anthropology 12(3):239-260, 1992
20. Drug Trafficking in World Capitalism: A Perspective on Jamaican Posses in the U.S. Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order 16(4):115-131, 1989
21. The Politics of Social Outlawry in Urban Jamaica. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 17(2-3):259-277. Special issue: “Black Folks in Cities Here & There.”, 1988
22. Women in Jamaica's Urban Informal Economy: Insights from a Kingston Slum. Nieuwe West-Indische Gids/New West Indian Guide 62(3&4):103-128, 1988