Category: Anthropology

  • From the Age of Exploration—beginning at the end of the Middle Ages—Europeans and their descendants legitimated their imperialist expansion ideologically by seeing non-European people through the lens of a racial worldview. Wherever Europeans colonized, and for differing lengths of time, you saw the usurpation of power and territory at the expense of indigenous people who…

  • The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions Stanford University Press 2013 240 pages 7 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780804757713 Paper ISBN: 9780804757720 E-bok ISBN: 9780804787284 Vilna Bashi Treitler, Professor of Sociology and Black and Hispanic Studies Baruch College, City University of New York Race is a known fiction—there is no genetic marker that indicates…

  • Multiple Identities: Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership Indiana University Press 2013-03-22 344 pages 3 b&w illus 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-00804-6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-253-00807-7 eBook ISBN: 978-0-253-00811-4 Edited by: Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara In recent years, Europeans have engaged in sharp debates about migrants and minority groups as social…

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “Race in Motion: Traversing the Transnational Emotionscape of White Beauty in Indonesia” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-10-31, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) L. Ayu Saraswati, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies University of Hawai‘i,…

  • Return to the rainforest: A son’s search for his Amazonian mother BBC News Magazine 2013-08-28 William Kremer BBC World Service David Good’s parents come from different countries – hardly unusual in the US where he was raised. But the 25-year-old’s family is far from ordinary – while his father is American, his mother is a…

  • A provocative exploration of how Western standards of beauty are influencing cultures across the globe and impacting personal, professional, romantic and familial relationships.

  • Jahaji Bhai: The emergence of a Dougla poetics in Trinidad and Tobago Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 5, Issue 4, 1999 Special Issue: Fight the Power: Changing forms of Consciousness and Protest pages 569-601 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962630 Rhoda Reddock, Professor of Gender and Development Studies University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad…

  • How does a group of people who have American Indian ancestry but no records of treaties, reservations, Native language, or peculiarly “Indian” customs come to be accepted—socially and legally—as Indians?

  • Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas University of Toronto Press August 2013 272 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802095527 Cloth ISBN: 9780802098184 Edited by: Maximilian C. Forte, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing…

  • Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South University of Nebraska Press 2013 232 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-7154-8 Melissa Schrift, Associate Professor of Anthropology East Tennessee State University Appalachian legend describes a mysterious, multiethnic population of exotic, dark-skinned rogues called Melungeons who rejected the outside world and lived in the remote, rugged mountains…