Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
“I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks.”
“I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square.”