Category: Anthropology

  • Mestizaje and Globalization: Transformations of Identity and Power University of Arizona Press 2014 264 pages 10 photos, 3 illlustrations, 5 tables 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-3090-8 Stefanie Wickstrom, Senior Lecturer of Political Science Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington Philip D. Young (1936-2013), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of Oregon The Spanish word mestizaje does…

  • Dismantling the Racial Paradise Stanford University Press Blog March 2015 Tiffany Joseph, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York How migration to and from the U.S. is transforming notions of race in Brazil. I still remember my first trip to Brazil—I was amazed…

  • Deconstructing Pseudo-Scientific Anthropology: Anténor Firmin and the Reconceptualization of African Humanity The Journal of Pan African Studies Volume 7, Number 2, August 2014 pages 9-33 Gershom Williams, Adjunct Professor of African-American History and African-American Studies Mesa Community College, Mesa, Arizona “The science of inequality is emphatically a science of White people. It is they who…

  • “General Heads,” Great Minds, and the Genesis of Scientific Racism Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Volume 15, Number 2, Spring 2015 pages 112-118 Robin Runia, Assistant Professor of English Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana It is commonly presum’d that the Heat of the Climate wherein they live, is the reason, why so…

  • Fifteen Projects Selected for Tribeca Film Institute All Access Grants Filmaker 2015-03-19 Scott Macaulay, Editor-in-chief Fifteen works — scripted, documentary and interactive — were selected today for the Tribeca Film Institute‘s All Access program, which offers grant monies and other non-monetary support to projects by creators from statistically underrepresented communities. The projects were chosen from…

  • The Evolution of the Idea of Race: From Scientific Racism to Genomics Oxford University Press Webinar Oxford University Press Friday, 2015-03-20, 18:00-19:00Z, 14:00-15:00 EDT Join Oxford University Press on Friday, March 20th for a Webinar featuring Tanya Golash-Boza. Tanya Golash-Boza is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts at the…

  • The Culture of Curls: What Hair Really Means in Mixed Race Societies The Yale Globalist 2013-12-24 Isidora Stankovic Timothy Dwight College Yale University Look through any fashion magazine and you might notice something puzzling. Almost without exception, models of every race have the same sleek, straightened hair. The message from these media sources seems clear:…

  • Land of the Cosmic Race Sociological Forum Volume 30, Issue 1 (March 2015) pages 248-251 DOI: 10.1111/socf.12157 Martha King Graduate Center City University of New York Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico. Christina A. Sue. New York: University of Oxford Press, 2013. In Land of the Cosmic Race: Race…

  • Imagining a future where racial reassignment surgery is the norm Quartz 2014-09-27 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Communications Professor University of Southern California, Annenberg Jess Row’s haunting new novel, Your Face In Mine, is an invitation to the future, an era bound only by the limits of imagination, money, and technology. It’s a time when you can…

  • Blood Quantum – Why it Matters, and Why it Shouldn’t All Things Cherokee 2014-08-04 Christina Berry “You’re an Indian? What part?” That’s the universal question many mixed-blood American Indians are asked every day. How many times have you mentioned in passing that you are Cherokee to find your conversation interrupted by intrusive questions about percentage?…