Diversity is a Dangerous Set-up
“White Lies In Dublin Docklands” by William Murphy [image: black graffiti that says “White Lies” on a white background] — the origin of this image is actually interesting and folks…
“White Lies In Dublin Docklands” by William Murphy [image: black graffiti that says “White Lies” on a white background] — the origin of this image is actually interesting and folks…
Welcome listeners to the first installment of our Diversity and Inclusion crossover series, bringing together This Anthro Life with Brandeis University. For those of you who are new…
“The Emergence of the Chief” is a statue on the Loyola campus of Concordia University in Montreal. {click to enlarge} In Canada, “a yoga instructor…says her free class…
Understanding Toilet Training around the World May Help Parents Relax I recently published a piece on The Conversation about toilet training in a global context. You can read the…
[Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Savannah Martin.] It is both impressive and depressing how frequently scholars of color are Othered by anthropology. For many, the tales of alienation are…
[Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Savannah Martin.] It is both impressive and depressing how frequently scholars of color are Othered by anthropology. For many, the tales of alienation are…
The latest rendition of “sorry, not sorry” is not just topping the Billboard charts. It is also a public relations anthem about “missing the mark.” This time, Dove…
For a while, the mega-global corporation, Unilever — owner of Dove beauty products — spoke thoughtfully to the world’s women. The 13-year-long “Real Beauty” campaign that…
Below is a post @anthrolens blogger @JennLong3 wrote on LinkedIn. In this post, I write about diversity and bias in Canadian job ads. ————————————————————–…
As a scholar who “grew up” in anthropology decades after the crisis of representation debates emerged, I am well aware of the colonizing power dynamics in our discipline’s…
The lives, status, and image of immigrants may constitute the single-most urgent human issue of our time. In an arresting and captivating new study of Cameroonian mothers now…
Written by Alfonso DiLuca, Vice-President Los Angeles Valley College Anthropological Society In science, perhaps more than in any other discipline, humans rest on prior experiences to advance a…
By Kate McGrath I am a scientist. Some people would probably call me a woman-scientist, and those people are jerks. Though it’s easy to forget, women make up…
I was recently contacted by a student who had taken my Intercultural Competencies course last Fall. In their email, they asked for clarification on the following topic:Is it…
I was recently contacted by a student who had taken my Intercultural Competencies course last Fall. In their email, they asked for clarification on the following topic:Is it…
Both contributing bloggers on this website completed their PhD research in the Netherlands. Why? We were drawn to understand the influence of nationalistic Dutch politicians on the everyday…
Both contributing bloggers on this website completed their PhD research in the Netherlands. Why? We were drawn to understand the influence of nationalistic Dutch politicians on the everyday…
Photo by Alma Gottlieb Women (and some men) with signs, as far as the eye could see. In my first post about the Women’s March of…
This blog will feature a series of posts on a new (2017) resource for first-time and long-standing ethnographers – a ‘guided journal’ for doing anthropology by Luis A.…
We must confront the nativism, xenophobia, and racism that youth in our “diverse classrooms” experience head on. I began writing this article in June 2016. At that time,…
(photo by Alma Gottlieb) The doors of our metro car opened and closed, opened and closed with increasingly alarming dysfunction. On any other day, the many more dozens…
How Orthodoxy, Professionalism, and Unresponsive Politics Finally Doomed a 19th-century Project What a sight to behold. These are the dying days, counting down soon to the final hours,…
Why we must challenge misrepresentations of race and culture on our textbook covers. Is it possible to claim that anthropology no longer exoticizes and creates cultural Others, when…
Anthropoliteia (@anthropoliteia) is another great anthropology resource publishing in blog form, offering “critical perspectives on police, security, crime, law and punishment around the world.” One of…