Category: Anthropology

  • Seoul International Seminar on Racism/Mixed Race in Korea and Japan Yonsei University, South Korea 2014-06-21 through 2014-06-22 Co-organized & Sponsored by Department of Cultural Anthropology & Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University …1:30-3:30 pm Mixed race/blood in modern Japan (Chair: Lee Sang Kook, Yonsei University) A.K.M. Skarpelis (NYU Sociology and Institute of Social Science, University…

  • Japanese Brazilians celebrate mixed heritage Al Jazeera 2014-06-17 Jillian Kestler-D’Amour, Online Producer Sao Paulo, Brazil – The room was a mixture of Brazilian green and yellow and Japanese red and white, as more than 200 members of the city’s large Japanese community turned out to watch the country of their ancestors take on Cote d’Ivoire…

  • Representations of mixed race Asian Americans in popular culture

  • Black In The Dominican Republic: Denying Blackness HuffPost Live The Huffington Post 2014-06-10 Marc Lamont Hill, Host In Latin America and Caribbean countries like the Dominican Republic many deny being of African decent, despite 90 percent of the population possessing black ancestry. Where has the blackness gone in the region? Guests: Biany Perez (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)…

  • Galileo Wept: A Critical Assessment of the Use of Race in Forensic Anthropology Transforming Anthropology Volume 9, Issue 2 (July 2000) pages 19–29 DOI: 10.1525/tran.2000.9.2.19 Diana Smay Emory University George Armelago, Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropolgy (1936-2014) Emory University Anthropology has been haunted by the misuse of the race concept since its beginnings. Although…

  • Seeking Roots in Shifting Ground–Dr. Laura Tugman’s topic for 18th Union, June 28 Melungeon Heritage Association: One People, All Colors 2014-05-20 18th Melungeon Union Vardy, Tennessee and Big Stone Gap, Virginia 2014-06-27 through 2014-06-28 Dr. Laura Tugman will discuss her doctoral dissertation, entitled Seeking Roots in Shifting Ground: Ethnic Identity Development and the Melungeons of…

  • The Politics of Race in Panama: Afro-Hispanic and West Indian Literary Discourses of Contention University Press of Florida 2014-04-15 200 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4986-1 Sonja Stephenson Watson, Associate Professor of Spanish University of Texas, Arlington This volume tells the story of two cultural groups: Afro-Hispanics, whose ancestors came to Panama as…

  • Radmilla’s Voice: Music Genre, Blood Quantum, and Belonging on the Navajo Nation Cultural Anthropology Volume 29, Issu3 2 (May 2014) pages 385-410 DOI: 10.14506/ca29.2.11 Kristina Jacobsen-Bia, Assistant Professor of Music University of New Mexico Window Rock, Navajo Nation, Arizona, September 1997. A young woman butchers a sheep as the crowd at the Navajo Nation Fairgrounds…

  • Technologies of Belonging: The Absent Presence of Race in Europe Science Technology Human Values Volume 39, Number 4 (July 2014) pages 459-467 DOI: 10.1177/0162243914531149 Amade M’charek, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Katharina Schramm, Lecturer Institute for Social Anthropology Martin Luther Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany David Skinner, Research Convener; Reader in Sociology Anglia…

  • But your hair is so beautiful… Black Women of Brazil 2014-05-08 Stephanie Paes (orginally published on 2013-06-12 as “Mas seu cabelo é tão bonito…” in Falando sem permissão) I know that it is. And only I understand the time I needed to take account of this (1). My hair is crespo (curly/kinky). It has gone…