Katherine Dunham was an anthropologist. One of the first African Americans to obtain a degree in anthropology, she conducted groundbreaking fieldwork in Jamaica and Haiti in the early 1930s and wrote several books including Journey to Accompong , Island Possessed , and Las Danzas de Haiti . Decades before Margaret Mead was publishing for popular audiences in Redbook , Dunham wrote ethnographically informed essays for Esquire and Mademoiselle under...