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Upstate Latinx

Harvest of Empire - Latinx Latina/o Studies

A course on “Upstate Latinx” as part of the “Discover Your Place” seminar series. Using the book Latina/o Studies by Ronald Mize.

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Impeachment & Anthropology

Concentration Camps - Impeachment Anthropology

From anthropology, the reasons for Trump’s immediate impeachment include treatment of migrants, international destabilization, and the climate crisis.

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Boundaries, Borders, Walls

Flores - No Border Walls - Boundaries

Human history is marked by migration, cooperation, group permeability, & interconnection. Recent efforts to build walls harms human potential.

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Anthropology & US Immigration

Terrio - Unaccompanied Undocumented Children in US Immigration Custody - Studying Immigration

There is a lot of great anthropology studying immigration in the United States. Immigration is central to the study of anthropology and to humanity.

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Anthropology on Immigration

Shadow of the Wall - Anthropology on Immigration

Anthropology has studied immigration and stands with immigrants against mass human rights violations.

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Becoming White

Brodkin - How Jews Became White - Becoming White, Policing Whiteness

Anthropology reveals that racial identities are not biologically given but a social process. Racism is crucial to becoming white and policing whiteness.

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Coalition of the Diverse

November Rain - Racially Mixed Crowd as Coalition of the Diverse

In November 2018, we can assemble the “coalition of the diverse” that almost came together in 2016: A racially mixed crowd in the November Rain.

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Student Projects 2016

In the Hartwick College J Term 2016 course, “Peoples & Cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean,” students emerged with a rich array of final projects.

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Latin America 2016

Latin America 2016

A 2016 book list for teaching Latin America & Caribbean Anthropology attempting to understand common themes in processes occurring across the Americas

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Introduction to Anthropology Course 2015

introduction to anthropology course description

Preview of a 2015 Introduction to Anthropology course using a new 3rd-edition textbook, Anthropology:What Does It Mean to Be Human?

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Humans Just Like Us?

Open Anthropology - Humans Just Like Us

Is the time gone for reaffirming that the Bongobongo are “humans just like us”? And does Open Access anthropology spell out the stakes for a wider public?

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Entangling the Biological

Introduction to Anthropology

An Introduction to Anthropology course for 2014, with emphasis on “entangling the biological” and the relevance of anthropology for important dialogue.

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Is the State Relevant?

Anthropology of the State

Globalization was supposed to render the national state irrelevant. Such claims had already been disproved by an anthropology of the state.

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Globalization Stories

McNeill - Global Condition - Globalization Stories

Contemporary stories of globalization erase centuries of contact and encounter: Exploring the North Atlantic fiction of modernity as a seductive universal.

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White-Race Problems

White - Richard Dyer - White Hispanic

Don’t worry White people! White Hispanics and our White Black President will save us! Geraldo Rivera’s Fox News fact-twisting shows race retrenchment.

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We Cannot Abandon Humanity

Virtual War and Magical Death - Bill Gates

When Bill Gates recommends Jared Diamond & Steven Pinker, reiterate anthropology’s calling: “the fate of no human group can be irrelevant to humankind” (Trouillot).

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2013 Introduction to Anthropology – Four Fields

Introduction to Anthropology

Introduction to Anthropology with “What Does it Mean to be Human?”; “Labor and Legality”; and “Applying Anthropology.” Biological, Archaeology, Culture.

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Teaching: Latin America & Caribbean 2012

Sanabria - Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean

Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean is less about “peoples and cultures” and more about processes at work across the Americas.

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Cultural Relativism & Anthropology

McGovern - Socialist Peace - Cultural Relativism

An assessment of cultural relativism & anthropology in 2011 as “Before you Judge, Stand in Her Shoes” dueled with “Don’t walk a mile in her shoes.”

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Racism Reality Check

Reproducing Race - Race Remixed

The idea of “Race Remixed” was always questionable. Census numbers didn’t show remixing, but a racism of persistent inequalities and “probationary whites.”

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