Reconstructing and Enriching Society: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in the African American Orisa Worship Movement for the 21st Century

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K03038
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: KOIKE IKUKO 京都大学, 人文科学研究所, 研究員 (60452299)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 思想哲学・教育 / 社会運動 / 人種・民族 / ジェンダー / 植民地主義 / アメリカ研究 / 黒人研究 / 文化人類学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this paper is to examine the social space of the African American Social Movement where race, class, gender, sexuality, and nationalism have been negotiated. This study, first, clarifies the way the movement limited women and sexual minorities' rights in its early days, and then the way they have challenged the patriarchal system or the culture of black masculinity. This study also argues the importance of the trans-Atlantic cultural communication in the process of reconstructing and enriching the social activism not for sexual minorities but for all those who, both men and women, were under the pressure of the politics of patriarchal family, black masculinity, and modern nationalism. Eventually, this paper scrutinizes the meaning of the racially articulated sexual representations and ideologies rooted in the US society, and the way race, class, gender, sexuality, and power are intertwined, redefined, reconstructed in the African American community and the US society.

Free Research Field

文化人類学、アメリカ研究、黒人研究