This pathbreaking collection         of intellectual biographies is the first to probe the careers of thirteen         early African-American anthropologists, detailing both their achievements         and their struggle with the latent and sometimes blatant racism of the         times. Invaluable to historians of anthropology, this collection will         also be useful to readers interested in African-American studies and biography.         The lives and work of: Caroline         Bond Day, Zora Neale Hurston, Louis Eugene King, Laurence Foster, W. Montague         Cobb, Katherine Dunham, Ellen Irene Diggs, Allison Davis, St. Clair Drake,         Arthur Huff Fauset, William S. Willis Jr., Hubert Barnes Ross, Elliot         Skinner