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This volume reflects a new commitment by American anthropologists to engage in what has been called the anthropology of racism: the analysis of systems of inequality based on biological differences. Comprising nine papers and related commentary, African Americans in the South examines racism, class stratification, and sexism as they bear on the African American struggle for social justice, equality, and cultural identity in the South.

The essays fall into three broad categories: economic survival strategies, health and reproductive problems, and religious responses to the larger society. Together these writings constitute an important, concerted first engagement of issues crucial to an understanding of the history and social life of the South.

Hans A. Baer is a professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. His books include The Black Spiritual Movement: A Religious Response to Racism. Yvonne Jones is an associate professor of anthropology and chairperson of the Department of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville. She has conducted extensive research on African American entrepreneurial activities.

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A volume in the seriesSouthern Anthropological Society Proceedings