Category: Anthropology

  • Pacifically Possessed: Scientific Production and Native Hawaiian Critique of the “Almost White” Polynesian Race University of California, San Diego 2013 320 pages Maile Renee Arvin A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Ethnic Studies This dissertation analyzes how scientific knowledge has represented the Polynesian race as…

  • Hawai’i’s Interracial History, Culture, and Tradition: Construction and Deconstruction (Sawyer Seminar VIII) University of Southern California, University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library East Asian Seminar Room (110C) Friday, 2014-02-28, 09:00-13:00 PST (Local Time) How are islands connectors of flows of peoples and culture? What types of constructions and deconstructions of race and identity have influenced…

  • Color Without Complex: A Conversation w/ Michaela Angela Davis & Dr. Yaba Blay New York University, Washington, D.C. Abramson Family Auditorium 1307 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005 Tuesday, 2014-02-18, 18:30 EST (Local Time) Michaela Angela Davis Yaba Blay, Ph.D., Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania What exactly…

  • Race as freedom: how Cedric Dover and Barack Obama became black Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 2 pages 222-240 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.715661 Nico Slate, Associate Professor of History Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Born across racial lines, Cedric Dover and Barack Obama both came to identify with the African American community. By contrasting the lives…

  • In a moving account, anthropologist Paula L. Wagoner tells the story of Bennett County, using snapshots of community events and crises, past and present, to reveal the complexity of race relations and identities there.

  • How sexism, racism, and socio-economic inequality interact in the Brazilian sex industry

  • Stuart Hall obituary The Guardian 2014-02-10 David Morley and Bill Schwarz Influential cultural theorist, campaigner and founding editor of the New Left Review When the writer and academic Richard Hoggart founded the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in 1964, he invited Stuart Hall, who has died aged 82, to join him as…

  • Stuart Hall – obituary The Telegraph London, England 2014-02-11 Stuart Hall was a cultural theorist who coined the term ‘Thatcherism’ and profoundly influenced New Labour Stuart Hall, who has died aged 82, came to Britain from his native Jamaica in 1951 and established himself as a leading cultural theorist and as a hero of the…

  • Are You My Cousin? The New York Times 2014-01-31 A. J. Jacobs I love my family, but I’m glad I don’t have to buy birthday presents for all my cousins. I’d be bankrupt within a week. My family tree sprawls far and wide. It’s not even a tree, really. More like an Amazonian forest. At…

  • 12 Beautiful Portraits Of Black Identity Challenging the “One-Drop” Rule PolicyMic New York, New York 2014-02-06 Amirah Mercer What are you?” they’d ask, head tilted and eyes squinted. “Black,” I’d reply. “No … but like, what else are you? I know it’s not all black.” So went a typical interrogation by my peers as a…