Jentri anders biography

Jentri Anders was an anthropology graduate student when she became part of the counter-cultural movement of the 1960s in Berkeley, California. She had been a political activist, one of those arrested in the Free Speech Movement. When students who had been part of the anti-war and civil rights protests began dropping out and moving to the country, she did so as well, though she often claims to be a "kick out," rather than a "dropout." The kick out part is partially true, since departmental politics and sexual harassment played a major role in her leaving and resulted in her never being accepted again at Berkeley to finish the PhD that got left behind. Being kicked out was nothing new, since she had been kicked out of two southern colleges prior to attending the University of California at Berkeley, in large part for loudly advocating integration for black people and equality for women at those colleges, Norman College, Norman Park, GA and Florida State University, Tallahassee FL The path to doing fieldwork in India at that point being blocked, Jentri simply appl

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