Category: Anthropology

  • Argentina Rediscovers Its African Roots The New York Times 2014-09-12 Michael T. Luongo The chapel in the small lakeside resort community of Chascomús is at best underwhelming. Its whitewashed brick exterior is partly obstructed by a tangle of vines and bushes, and its dim, one-room interior is no more majestic than its facade. Wooden pews…

  • Chinese culture fails to make the grade for today’s mixed-race children South China Morning Post Hong Kong, China 2014-09-08 Lijia Zhang, Writer, Journalist, Social Commentator Lijia Zhang recounts her struggle to instill pride and love of all things Chinese in her daughters May, my 17-year-old elder daughter, told me the results of her school exams…

  • Mothly Guest Author: Araújo, Emanoel GAM – Global Art and the Museum Karlsruhe, Germany March 2009 This month it is a great pleasure for us to present as our fifth guest author Emanoel Araújo, founder of the Museu AfroBrasil, who was interviewed by Hans Belting on the occasion of the first GAM Platform in São…

  • Chronicling Mississippi’s ‘Church Mothers,’ and Getting to Know a Grandmother The New York Times 2014-08-29 Samuel G. Freedman, Professor of Journalism Columbia University, New York SUMNER, Miss. — Toward noon on a torrid Monday in the Mississippi Delta, Alysia Burton Steele drove down Highway 49, looking for the crossroads near the Old Antioch Baptist Church.…

  • A Mother’s Love: Stories of Struggle, Sacrifice, Love and Wisdom The Root 2014-05-11 Breanna Edwards Journalist Alysia Steele’s explores the “jewels in the Mississippi Delta” who held it down for their families through decades of strife and racial struggle. It’s Mother’s Day weekend, and many of us may feel the keen absence of the women…

  • Land of the cosmic race: race mixture, racism, and blackness in Mexico [Villarreal Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1989-1991 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.920094 Andrés Villarreal, Professor of Sociology University of Maryland, College Park Land of the cosmic race: race mixture, racism, and blackness in…

  • A Conversation with Dr. Yaba Blay: Saturday 30th August Africa Women’s Development Fund Plot Number 78, AWDF House Ambassadorial Enclave East Legon, Accra, Ghana 2014-08-28 You’re invited to a conversation with Dr. Yaba Blay on Saturday 30th August from 5pm-7pm at the AWDF resource centre in East Legon, Accra. Dr. Blay is a professor, producer,…

  • The biopolitics of mixing: Thai multiracialities and haunted ascendancies [England Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1923-1926 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.925129 Sara England, Associate Professor of Anthropology Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, California The biopolitics of mixing: Thai multiracialities and haunted ascendancies, by Jinthana…

  • American Pop Culture Hides, Reveals Multiracial Asian-Americans Voice of America 2014-08-03 Jim Stevenson The discussion of race in the United States has always been complex and often difficult. Yet in an overwhelmingly large percentage of families, it is not difficult to find some evidence of a multiracial influence. LeiLani Nishime is assistant professor of communications…

  • Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach Oxford University Press 2014-08-01 528 pages 7-1/2 x 9-1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780199920013 Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach engages students in critical questions related to racial dynamics in the U.S. and around the world. Written in accessible,…