Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Bianca Williams

Author of The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism (Duke University Press, 2018), which noted anthropologist A. Lynn Bolles describes as a “novel and innovative ethnography” that “pushes the boundaries of what anthropology can be considered in its broadest definition.” Williams, who is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, returned to Duke University, where she earned a Ph.D. in 2009, as part of the Symposium,  Black Women, Black Studies and Knowledge Production.

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