Racial Disproportionality in the King County Juvenile Justice System
“He’s been shot, you have to go to him. Tell him mom is on the way!” is all I heard as I answered a phone call from my…
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Why Do We Ask about Race?
In graduate school, I used to get an email from the registrar every year asking me to log into the system and select my race and religion from…
Review “Letters of Stone. From Nazi Germany to South Africa” (Steven Robins, 2016)
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Heike Becker „Stumble Stones“ of Siegfried and Edith Robinski | planted by Robins in memory of his relatives When Steven Robins delivered…
Trump’s Tactics and Republican Speechlessness
The most astounding thing about the rise of Donald Trump is not his willingness to use racist hatred as a central theme in his presidential campaign—it’s the unwillingness…
Racial Realities
When I tell my students that there is no such thing as “race” (meaning biological race), I wait for the blowback. I know it is coming. “Well if…
In the Journals – February 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, a look at recent publications in the world of security, law, crime, and governance. The February issue of Cultural Anthropology is…
Laughter is Social Glue
“Humor Versus Color” by Mita Roy ~ This cartoon was created in the spirit of generativity similar to the Raagmala paintings of India, in which visual art was…
In Memoriam, Sidney Mintz, 1922-2015
Professor Sidney Wilfred Mintz, affectionately known as “Sid,” passed away on December 26, 2015. In a first and now widely-shared post, Elizabeth Dunn succinctly conveyed the thoughts of…
anthro in the news 12/21/2015
Source: Google Images/Creative Commons Syrian refugees in poverty Marketplace (American Public Media) published a piece on the dire economic situation of Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon….
Pharmaceutical Prosthesis and White Racial Rescue in the Prescription Opioid “Epidemic” by Helena Hansen
Introduction A U.S. public discourse of addiction as a disabling psychiatric condition (as opposed to a moral flaw or social deviancy) was codified into Social Security policy in…
Call for reviews: Recent publications on #Race
It’s a theme that has been the subject of countless books, articles, monologues and debates: race. We’ve touched upon it in many of the reviews posted, but never focused…
The Ocean Conservatory’s Call for Mass Incineration in Asia: Disposability for Profit, Fantasies of Containment, & Colonialism
The Ocean Conservatory would like to burn 80% of the waste in coastal Asia with US-made incinerators. According to a wide range of experts and grassroots organizations from…
In the Journals – September 2015
Welcome back to In the Journals, a round-up of recent journal publications on security, crime, law enforcement and the state. September is upon us, and that means classes…
Culture, Culture, Everywhere
Just as I was preparing to teach Cultural Anthropology, two posts about culture came out on powerhouse anthropology blogs. On Savage Minds, Alex Golub reviews The Asian American…
What articles from AAA would you like to see opened on Race and Racism?
With our inaugural co-edited issue on Hello Anthropocene: Climate Change and Anthropology closing back up after six months of free access (and with thanks to Ryan Anderson for…
Dumpsters, difference, and illiberal embodiment
Food Not Bombs and endeavors like it, I would argue, also create the conditions to queer categories of embodiment like race, class, and sex and interrogate their privileged…
Racism and the Politics of Culture
How top-down misleading definitions of culture and multiculturalism contribute to racism in T&T… From an anthropological perspective one problem with the outgoing government’s …
Racism and the Politics of Culture
How top-down misleading definitions of culture and multiculturalism contribute to racism in T&T… From an anthropological perspective one problem with the outgoing government’s …
Racism and the Politics of Culture
How top-down misleading definitions of culture and multiculturalism contribute to racism in T&T… From an anthropological perspective one problem with the outgoing government’s …
Refugees: Humans-as-Waste?
Discard studies is about more than discarded, wasted, unsaved, and externalized objects. It also includes people.
Article Alert! Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime
“”During the first hour spent in houses with suspected indoor air-quality issues, I would slowly develop an ache in the back of my eyes, which would with time…
Gina Athena Ulysse on Sandra Bland
In a piece on Africa is a Country titled “Meditation on Sandra Bland’s self-possession, The Beatles and neo-Black codes of conduct,“ anthropologist Gina Athena Ulysse reflects on Sandra…
An Addendum by Patricia Sunderland: Witnessing and Speaking Charleston
On the evening of June 17th, the murder of nine African Americans took place at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. My Rachel Dolezal post was…
When White Privilege Goes Wrong
What is white privilege and how does it operate… Over the last two weeks, the international news cycle has, without hardly ever naming it, been focussed on some…