Introduction: forging a theory, politics, praxis, and poetics of black feminist anthropology / Irma McClaurin -- Seeking the ancestors: forging a Black feminist tradition in anthropology / A. Lynn Bolles -- Theorizing a Black feminist self in anthropology: toward an autoethnographic approach / Irma McClaurin -- A passion for sameness: encountering a Black feminist self in fieldwork in the Dominican Republic / Kimberly Eison Simmons -- Disciplining the Black female body: learning feminism in Africa and the United States / Carolyn Martin Shaw -- Negotiating identity and Black feminist politics in Caribbean research / Karla Slocum -- A Black feminist perspective on the sexual commodification of women in the new global culture / Angela M. Gilliam -- Biomedical ethics, gender, and ethnicity: implications for Black feminist anthropology / Cheryl Mwaria -- Contingent stories of anthropology, race, and feminism / Paulla A. Ebron -- A homegirl goes home: Black feminism and the lure of native anthropology / Cheryl Rodriguez.