#AmplifyBlackVoices: US White Supremacy & Anthropology
“Black lives do not actually matter to anthropology, so far as I can see: and if they did, I could be speaking out freely from within the borders of the United States.”
Discuss White Privilege
These posts highlight analysis from an anthropologist known as Discuss White Privilege or DWP. Discuss White Privilege once commented extensively on the old Savage Minds blog, wrote one guest post, and has also commented on this blog. She appears in one of the most-shared posts on this blog, Starbucks Enlightenment: Is Anthropology Better than Starbucks?
These posts are the relatively raw versions of email or text communications I have had with Discuss White Privilege, who was once a student in a prominent anthropology graduate school program, but is now in exile outside the United States.
The best accounts of what happened to Discuss White Privilege in graduate school are posted in two Twitter threads:
1 / THREAD / Shortly after the story of Harvard anthro dept’s 3 sexual harassers broke, we were contacted by a Black anthropologist whose experiences of bullying, harassment & abuse at a top UC anthro grad program have been routinely silenced for years.
— MeTooAnthro (@MeTooAnthro) June 11, 2020
1/ A few months ago, I posted about my experiences with anthropology graduate studies hoping to support #hautalk in discussing the asshole problem in anthropology. https://t.co/aaiYoxDTpW
— Jonathan Wald (@j__wald) December 9, 2019
White Anthropology Blogs
As an inaugural post for the Discuss White Privilege section, the post below transcribed a June 2019 interaction mostly about anthropology blogs and white anthropology, thus white anthropology blogs. All Twitter embeds and links were from Discuss White Privilege. For a 2020 update on white anthropology blogs, see the follow-up US White Supremacy and Anthropology. … Read more