Citing Black Women: From Citational Refusal to Recognition

This essay addresses the tension between Northern Hemispheric intellectual assumptions and anthropology’s ostensibly critical stance within that tradition, one. Two, extending beyond contradictions of discipline’s origins in colonial encounter to address place Black women anthropologists caught “the Here Elsewhere” (Trouillot 1995), “Citing Women” argues for working through problem canonical disciplinary knowledge formation by prioritizing a feminist approach new decolonial anthropology.