Category: Anthropology

  • The 10 Percenter The New York Times 2011-10-13 Robert S. Boyton Henry Louis Gates Jr. is having lunch at New York’s Union Square Cafe, hoping Danny Meyer’s chicken soup will soothe his allergies. He has just returned from Newark, where he interviewed Mayor Cory Booker for his new PBS series, “Finding Your Roots.” After lunch…

  • Identity issues Harvard Gazette 2011-01-28 Stephanie Schorow, Harvard Correspondent ‘Black in Latin America’ examines perceptions of race There were laughs of recognition as Silvio Torres-Saillant, professor of English and humanities at Syracuse University, told a story that underscored a major point of the “Black in Latin America” conference, which kicked off on Jan. 27 at…

  • Contesting Identities Through Walker Dance: Mestizo Performance in the Southern Andes of Peru Repercussions: a journal dedicated to all areas of music studies University of California, Berkeley Fall 1994, Volume 3, No. 2 pages 50-80 Zoila Mendoza-Walker This article analyzes an event in the city of Cusco, Peru that reverberated throughout the entire region during…

  • Pelo Malo (Bad Hair) Sudaca Films 2013 Venezuela 93 minutes color Written and Directed by Mariana Rondón Produced by Marité Ugás Starring Samuel Lange as Junior Samantha Castillo as Marta Junior is nine years old and has “bad hair.” He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer. This…

  • Artists, Educators Laud Black Heritage In Dominican Republic The Associated Press 2013-10-11 Ezequiel Abiú López, Foreign Correspondent The Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — In a school auditorium filled with laughing students, actresses Luz Bautista Matos and Clara Morel threw themselves into acting out a fairy tale complete with a princess, a hero…

  • Tell Me a Story: Genomics vs. Indigenous Origin Narratives GeneWatch Council for Responsible Genetics Volume 26, Number 4, Religion & Genetics (Aug-Oct 2013) pages 11-13 Kim TallBear, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin On April 13, 2005 the Indigenous Peoples’ Council on Biocolonialism issued a press release opposing the Genographic Project, which aimed…

  • “Lines of the Nation” radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, Laura Bear explores the new public spaces and social relationships created by the…

  • Public genealogies: Documents, bodies and nations in Anglo-Indian railway family histories Contributions to Indian Sociology Volume 35, Number 3 (October 2001) pages 355-388 DOI: 10.1177/006996670103500303 Laura Bear Department of Anthropology The London School of Economics This article argues for an approach to archives and documents that focusses on their material effects. It traces the impact…

  • In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. “Eating the Black Body” examines the often-sadistic forms of sexual violence during the period of slavery and its aftermath.

  • Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science University of Minnesota Press September 2013 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6586-0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6585-3 Kim TallBear, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin Who is a Native American? And who gets to decide? From genealogists searching online…