With Covid-19 showing no sign of abating, mental health care (from ongoing therapy to helplines) continues to be an important site of treatment for many Americans. While traditional…
George Floyd protest signs at the Ottawa Courthouse by Janderson L. via wikimedia Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations that are…
The brutal murder of George Floyd on 25 May 2020 has once again revealed the terrifying fissures that cut across our societies and the hashtag Black Lives Matter…
Irma McClaurin is a Black feminist anthropologist and consultant who conducts research on the social construction of inequality and its impact on African diaspora communities through an intersectional…
Memes circulating on the net articulate simple comparisons with political intent, for example as an analogy between the USA today and “Weimar” back then, or between German and…
[This article was co-authored by Anar Parikh and Chelsey Carter. Please cite accordingly.] Content Warning: The topics discussed in this piece share experiences of racism, narcissism, and abuse;…
[This article was co-authored by Anar Parikh and Chelsey Carter. Please cite accordingly.] Content Warning: The topics discussed in this piece share experiences of racism, narcissism, and abuse;…
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Susan Levine, Lenore Manderson The imponderabilia of our COVID times As medical anthropologists well versed in the social grammar of infectious…
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Sydney Howe As Europe and North America begin to ease lockdown restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, this essay looks broadly at…
You don’t waste your energy fighting the fever; you must only fight the disease. And the disease is not racism. It is greed and the struggle for power.…
Don Nonini, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Insa Koch’s recent (2020) FOCAAL blog, “The Making of Modern Slavery in Austerity Britain,” reminds us that enslavement and…
Racism permeates the academy. We will need more than performative allyship and symbolic statements condemning racism in society if we are to build a more inclusive anthropology. …
We do not sit outside of the world in which we live. The current fight over the fate of Confederate monuments in US life is a direct struggle…
In October 2015, Sallie Han and I put out our third co-edited issue of Open Anthropology, “Race, Racism, and Protesting Anthropology.” The articles in that issue have again…
Hide Press Release (9 Less Words) Gareth Haysom African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated both the unsustainability and the fragility…
Druckman, Charlotte + 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters (2019) Women On Food. New York: Abrams Press. 400 pp. ISBN 978 1 4197 3635 3; eISBN…
Black lives matter across any geographical border. My research and my own racial encounters confirm what I have known in my soul: our fates are inextricably linked. And…
BlackLivesMatter Protest in Berlin Alexanderplatz on 6 June 2020. Copyright: Nasima Selim. Drafted on 6 June 2020 Follow us on Twitter @AGPublicAnthro and Facebook In the…
Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd, who Minneapolis police brutally killed on May 25, testifies at a hearing on police accountability held by the House Judiciary Committee. Erin…
در رسانههای آمریکایی، فرمولی وجود دارد که با عنوان فرمولی علمی برای شکستن اعتصابها و اعتراضات مورد استفاده قرار میگیرد. این فرمول با استفاده از ساخت شعارهای پوچ،…
Being of South-East Asian background growing up in Australia, these types of comments are not something unfamiliar to me. I have grappled with race and culture many times…
The world has taken notice that the United States of America is in crisis. In solidarity with the plight of Black Americans, protests have cropped up in many…
The Booker T. Washington High School parade processes along Greenwood Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Greenwood Cultural Center Just north of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, Greenwood once had one o…
Sydney’s Bondi Beach in January 2012. Photo: Alex Proimos As sometimes happens in Sydney in late March, toward the end of summer, that particular Friday was brilliantly hot…