Race, Racism, & Protesting Anthropology
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Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility
Get 15 free-to-read articles on “Race, Racism, and Protesting Anthropology.” Available July-August 2020 in the “Confronting Anti-BIPOC Racism” resources.
“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.”
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
There is a lot of great anthropology studying immigration in the United States. Immigration is central to the study of anthropology and to humanity.
Anthropology has studied immigration and stands with immigrants against mass human rights violations.
Anthropology reveals that racial identities are not biologically given but a social process. Racism is crucial to becoming white and policing whiteness.
Anthropology condemns the revival of biological race. Some join against racist calls to police black people. But what about race & racism within anthropology?
The October 2017 issue of Open Anthropology promotes material linked to the #AmAnth17 meetings, Anthropology Matters (November 29-December 3).
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.
As gun violence continues in the United States, this gun control podcast reflects on how anthropology can bring sanity and contribute to political debate.
With anthropologists saying many things about culture, is it any wonder the students and the public are confused?
Anthropology and Storytelling – Stories that must be told to transform the anthropocene. And yet: Can anthropology spell out relevance for a wider audience?
Resources and thoughts on Teaching Cultural Anthropology for fall 2014: “Teaching is the other side of participant observation” (Tim Ingold, Making 2013:13)
Globalization was supposed to render the national state irrelevant. Such claims had already been disproved by an anthropology of the state.
A double review from 2003 of Elizabeth Chin’s Purchasing Power and Steven Kemper’s Buying and Believing. A review that went poof! from American Ethnologist.
Fieldwork and the ethnographic monograph invited closure around cultural wholes. Anthropology can defend the concept of culture while jettisoning the word.
Are there ways to counter the notion of “gang culture” without promoting myths of individualism? Can we usefully bring anthropology to the courtroom?
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.
Could epigenetics finally re-write the script about human nature? Maybe, but first we have to go over The Edge’s promotional tribute to Napoleon Chagnon.
Brooks uses culture to bypass power, inequality, economics, politics, and history. That’s the real cultural problem–and a problem anthropology must tackle.
The indigenous allies in Matthew Restall’s Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest point to contingent histories, not the inevitability of guns, germs & steel.
Ruth Benedict’s Patterns of Culture wins Jared Diamond for conceptual clarity, writing style, ethnographic example, and impact. Pretty good for 1934.
At the 2012 American Anthropological Association, Sidney Mintz received the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology and papers in honor.
Anthropology should be front and center–the 2012 Obama Romney election concerns race, culture, history, and power, key issues for political anthropology.
Denisovans! Exciting findings, cutting-edge genetic sequencing technologies, and scientists tone-deaf to a modern world built on colonialism and racism.