Remapping Anthropology's “Outside Within”: From Domestic Periphery to Transnational Crossroads

This perspectives article presents autoethnographic highlights of my formative years and career trajectory. My undergraduate and graduate studies inspired me to accept, as a call to action, the goal of reinventing anthropology and aligning my intellectual pursuits to struggles for human dignity, social justice, and liberation. Over many years, my scholarship has addressed a variety of concerns, ranging from Jamaica's urban informal economy to the theory and practice of African diasporic feminisms that understand racism, which operates in gendered and class-differentiated contexts, to be a violation of human rights. The article sketches the evolution of my thinking as a socially situated intellectual committed to the ongoing collective work toward antiracism, depatriarchalization, and decolonization along epistemological, institutional, and more encompassing structural lines.