Category: Anthropology

  • In “Blinded by Sight,” Obasogie argues that rather than being visually obvious, both blind and sighted people are socialized to see race in particular ways, even to a point where blind people “see” race.

  • The symbolics of blood: Mestizaje in the Americas Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 3, Issue 4, 1997 (Special Issue: Race and Place) pages 495-521 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1997.9962576 Carol A. Smith, Professor Emerita of Anthropology University of California, Davis Mestizaje, a significant process of identity formation in Latin America based on presumed race mixture,…

  • Scripts of Blackness and the Racial Dynamics of Nationalism in Puerto Rico Papers of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Volume 6 (2009) 38 pages Dr. Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey National identity, no matter how differently defined, is often constructed through claims to…

  • The Symbolic Power of Color: Constructions of Race, Skin-Color, and Identity in Brazil Humanity & Society Volume 35, Numbers 1-2 (February 2011) pages 62-99 DOI: 10.1177/016059761103500104 Marcia L. Mikulak, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of North Dakota Some current cultural anthropologists define race as a social construct, yet explorations of the socio-historical constructions that give…

  • Changing Space, Making Race: Distance, Nostalgia, and the Folklorization of Blackness in Puerto Rico Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 9,  Issue 3, 2002 pages 281-304 DOI: 10.1080/10702890213969 Isar Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey In this article, I critique some of the discursive terms in which blackness is…

  • Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba [Williams Review] Association for Feminist Anthropology Book Reviews 2012-12-21 Erica Lorraine Williams, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia Nadine T. Fernandez, Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010) In this insightful and well-written ethnography, Nadine Fernandez explores a central paradox:…

  • A Racial Paradise? Race and Race Mixture in Henry Louis Gates’ Brazil Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Volume 8,  Issue 1, 2013 pages 88-91 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2013.768464 Chinyere Osuji, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden In this documentary, Henry Louis Gates explores the extent to which the notion of…

  • Who gets the last laugh, again? Africa is a Country 2013-11-18 Jessica Blatt, Assistant Professor of Political Science Marymount Manhattan College, New York, New York I enjoy seeing a smug, bearded white supremacist get his comeuppance as much as the next guy. (Though the joy of the exuberant lady sitting next to this one is…

  • Race and Medicine Princeton University AAS 403 / ANT 403 (EM) Spring 2013-2014 Carolyn M. Rouse, Professor of Anthropology In 1998, then-President Clinton set a national goal that by the year 2010 race, ethnic, and gender disparities in six disease categories would be eliminated. While the agenda, called Healthy People 2010, was a noble effort,…

  • The Martinican concept of “creoleness”: A multiracial redefinition of culture. Mots Pluriels Number 7, (July 1998): Third Space and Cross-Cultural Identities—Mestissage – Tiers Espace – Identite Beverley Ormerod, Associate Professor of French University of Western Australia In the 1930s, black and coloured intellectuals from the French Caribbean colonies of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyane sought for…