“We are not named”: Black women and the politics of citation in anthropology
“We are not named”: Black women and the politics of citation in anthropology
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“我们没有被命名”：黑人女性与人类学中的引用政治
DOI：
10.1002/fea2.12038
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Dominique Garrett‐Scott
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作者：
Christen A. Smith;Dominique Garrett‐Scott
黑人女性人类学家在该学科内的引用率与我们在该领域的学术成果和知名度并不相符。尽管我们接受过培训、实践和多产的写作，但在顶级人类学期刊上发表文章的作者很少引用黑人女性。这种引用的缺席揭示了一个悖论：尽管黑人女性作为领导者和服务提供者在该学科中发挥着关键作用，但我们的智力贡献却被低估了。我们在象征上是可见的，但在学术上却黯然失色。本文探讨了美国黑人女性对人类学贡献的认识论抹杀。通过一项试点研究，我们测量了黑人女性在一些排名最高的人类学期刊中的引用率（根据影响因子）。从一维性别分析转向分析种族和性别的二维交叉分析，我们发现，相对于她们在该领域的绝对代表性，黑人女性在顶级人类学期刊的引用中所占的比例较低。这揭示了一个重要且令人不安的趋势：顶级人类学期刊很少引用黑人女性人类学家，而且在极少数被引用的情况下，她们也被其他黑人人类学家引用。人类学中需要对权力政治和不平等进行交叉分析，不仅关注性别歧视，还关注种族歧视。
Black women anthropologists are not cited within the discipline at a rate consistent with our scholarly production and visibility in the field. Despite our training, practice, and prolific writing, authors who publish in top‐tier anthropology journals rarely cite Black women. This citational absence reveals a paradox: although Black women play key roles in the discipline as leaders and service providers, our intellectual contributions are undervalued. We are symbolically visible yet academically eclipsed. This article examines the epistemological erasure of Black women's contributions to anthropology in the United States. Through a pilot study, we measure Black women's citation rates in some of the highest ranked anthropology journals (according to impact factor). Moving away from a one‐dimensional gender analysis toward a two‐dimensional, intersectional analysis that analyzes race and gender, we find that Black women are underrepresented in citations in top‐tier anthropology journals relative to their absolute representation in the field. This reveals a significant and disturbing trend: Black women anthropologists are rarely cited in top‐tier anthropology journals, and in the rare instances they are cited, they are cited by other Black anthropologists. There is a need for an intersectional analysis of the politics of power and inequality in anthropology, one that not only pays attention to gender discrimination but also racial discrimination.