Category: Anthropology

  • Down Blige Road: Where There’s No Place Like Home Richmond Hill Reflections Richmond Hill, Georgia Volume 10, Number 4 (September 2014) pages 57-60 Leslie Ann Berg (Photos by Callie Beale Photography) Richmond Hill’s history is engrained deep within the walls of its old buildings, street names, and its land. But there is another place where…

  • DANCE/CHANGE: The Mixed-Race Polynesian Body in Settler and Indigenous Performance University of California, Riverside 900 University Avenue Riverside, California 92521 Athletics & Dance Building Dance Studio Theatre, ATHD 102 Tuesday, 2014-10-21, 16:10-18-00 PDT (Local Time) Maile Arvin, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Ethnic Studies University of California, Riverside The Mixed-Race Polynesian Body in Settler…

  • Student Blog: Why questioning the existence of Afro-Mexicans is problematic Baker Institute Blog Insight and analysis from the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University 2014-08-25 Sharae DeWitt Rice University, Houston, Texas Race has been closely tied to Mexican identity since the Mexican Revolution in 1910. The national ideology is centered…

  • Black and Belgian: Navigating Multiracial Identities in Ghent, Belguim Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe 2014-10-01 Walter Thompson-Hernandez Introduction What does it mean to be Black and multiracial in Belgium? How does sub-Saharan African culture and experiences impact the lives of multiracial people or Afropeans in Belgium? How influential is the U.S. Black experience in the…

  • The Race Myth, Racial Disparities in Health, and Why There Are So Few African American Evolutionists Evolution: This View of Life 2012-02-24 David Sloan Wilson, Host and Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology State University of New York, Binghamton Joseph L. Graves, Professor & Associate Dean for Research (author of The Race Myth: Why We…

  • The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea Harvard University Press October 2014 384 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 4 halftones, 2 line illustrations Hardcover ISBN: 9780674417311 Robert Wald Sussman, Professor of Physical Anthropology Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Biological races do not exist—and never have. This view is shared by all…

  • Exploring Identity: The Asian American Experience at Harvard The Harvard Crimson: The University Daily since 1873 Harvard University 2014-09-25 Maia R. Silber, Crimson Staff Writer While last year’s “I, Too, Am Harvard” focused on identity and belongingness on a multiracial campus, Harvard’s AAPI students will also examine these concepts within the context of their own…

  • Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality by Michael J. Montoya (review) [Wentzell] The Americas Volume 71, Number 1, July 2014 pages 179-181 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2014.0105 Emily Wentzell, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Iowa Montoya, Michael J., Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality (Berkeley: University of…

  • Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality University of California Press March 2011 282 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520267305 Paperback ISBN: 9780520267312 Michael J. Montoya, Professor of Anthropology, Chicano/Latino Studies & Public Health University of California, Irvine This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2…

  • At Least We Talk About Race in the USA: Zadie Smith on Writing, Race and Color My American Meltingpot: A Multi-Culti Mix of Identity Politics, Parenting & Pop Culture 2014-09-22 Lori L. Tharps, Associate Professor of Journalism Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania …Last week Wednesday I skipped out of work as early as possible so I…