{"id":32369,"date":"2020-10-28T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=32369"},"modified":"2020-10-28T10:30:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:30:25","slug":"ana-lara-wins-ruth-benedict-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/ana-lara-wins-ruth-benedict-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana Lara wins Ruth Benedict Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"markwbippj29p\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Assistant Professor Ana-Maurine<\/span> Lara, women&#8217;s, gender, and sexuality studies, has been awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize of the Association for Queer Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association for her book <em>Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty<\/em> (SUNY Press 2020), out this month. <span class=\"mark2f8r24xuf SSBqA0O5vTLfa9GC1wxGQ\" data-markjs=\"true\">Congratulations to Ana!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32370 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ana-Lara.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ana-Lara.jpg 288w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ana-Lara-150x133.jpg 150w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ana-Lara-260x231.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ana-Lara-160x142.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31936 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/content.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/content.jpg 128w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/content-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The citation reads: In <em>Queer Freedom: Black SovereiIgnty<\/em>, Lara offers a timely and imaginative exploration of Blackness, queerness, and anthropological theory. Based on three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic, the text is an extended reflection on the two sets of <span class=\"markwbippj29p\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">ana<\/span>logical terms that make up its title. How can queer: black lives be nurtured? What does it mean to long for or to realize freedom: sovereignty in our increasingly precarious present? Rather than answering these driving questions, Lara invites the reader through a poetic exploration of the stakes of the questions in a world entangled in colonial legacies. Through layered descriptions of Criollo spiritual practices, the book extends as an <em>offrenda<\/em>\u2014an offering in form and content\u2014that opens possibilities for queer, Black, and indigenous lifeworlds. <em>Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty <\/em>is an innovative ethnographic text and powerful example of decolonial anthropology. The rich ethnographic writing challenges the reader to enter a space in which colonial knowledge and power structures dissolve, allowing another world to emerge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor Ana-Maurine Lara, women&#8217;s, gender, and sexuality studies, has been awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize of the Association for Queer Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association for her book Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty (SUNY Press 2020), out&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/ana-lara-wins-ruth-benedict-prize\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":32370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,93,42,8,17,63,696,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-issues","category-african-diasporas","category-awards","category-books","category-faculty-affiliates","category-lgbtq","category-news","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32371,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32369\/revisions\/32371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}