Ruth Behar: Impossible Homecomings

Ruth Behar, Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, writer, and noted feminist, reflects on the recent literature being produced by diasporic women ethnographers, journalists, and writers, addressing their contradictory and often pained relationships to their home countries. Focusing on the work of Latin American and Caribbean women, she includes an account of her own return to Cuba and her complicated search for home. This Rennert Forum on Women lecture, entitled “Impossible Homecomings: Women Ethnographers and the Places They Left Behind,” took place on April 10, 2008 at Barnard College.

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