Category: Anthropology

  • Race and Identity in the Dominican Republic: A Complex Topic CIEE Santiago, DR Service Learning Blog CIEE Study Abroad Council on International Educational Exchange 2012-09-18 Hannah Loppnow St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin One piece of advice that really resonated with me from the first day of orientation was “put yourself out there.” We were…

  • In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields—from Spanish (1850s–1898) to US rule (1898-)—Puerto Ricans struggled to shape and contain conversations about race. In so doing, they crafted, negotiated, and imposed on others multiple forms of silences while reproducing the idea of a unified, racially mixed, harmonious nation.

  • ETHS 309 D: Race & Ethnicity Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin Ethnic Studies Spring 2013 Cynthia Rolling, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology This course engages students in an analysis of historical and contemporary experiences of race and ethnicity in the United States as influenced by changing migration trends and economic developments. Special consideration is given to…

  • Race, ideas, and ideals: A comparison of Franz Boas and Hans F.K. Günther History of European Ideas Volume 32, Issue 3, 2006 pages 313-332 DOI: 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2006.05.001 Amos Morris-Reich, Director of the Bucerius Institute Department of Jewish History University of Haifa, Israel This article compares two radically opposed views concerning “race” in the first half of…

  • An Eagle Eye in Harlem narratively: Local. Original. Organic. In-Depth. 2012-12-10 Jenni Monet From Malcolm X Boulevard to pow-wow road trips, a black man from Georgia adopts a Cherokee persona despite questionable ties to any Native American roots. Robert Banks’ one-bedroom flat is lavishly decorated with Native American artwork—sculptures and dreamcatchers that the 71-year-old Georgia…

  • ANTH 206 American Indian Societies (FOLK 230) University of North Carolina Summer 2013 Why do American Indians have casinos and reservations? Who is an Indian? How do Indians feel about American history? What kinds of futures do young Indians imagine for themselves and their tribes, and how can a non-Indian participate in and contribute to…

  • The Mixed Race of India Sacramento Daily Union Volume 84, Number 71 1892-11-11 page 4, column 3 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Eurasia has no boundaries. It lies, a varying social fact, all over India, thick in the great cities, thickest in Calcutta, where the conditions of climate and bread-wining are most suitable; where, moreover,…

  • The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing 2012-05-15 220 pages 5 x 8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-936214-71-6 Tara L. Masih, Writer & Editor Award-winning editor Tara L. Masih put out a call in 2007 for Intercultural Essays dealing with the subjects of “culture, race, and a sense of place.” The prizewinners are gathered for the…

  • U-M’s Understanding Race Project examines issues at heart of the human experience, advances national conversation on race University of Michigan News Release 2012-12-19 Contacts: Frank Provenzano, (734) 647-4411 Maryanne George, (734) 615-6514 Deborah Greene, (734) 763-4008 Twitter hashtags: #UnderstandRace, #UMtheme   ANN ARBOR—Few subjects provoke as strong a visceral response as the topic of race.…

  • Passing for Black in Seventeenth-Century Maryland Chapter in: Interpreting the Early Modern World: Transatlantic Perspectives Springer 2011 246 pages eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-70759-4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-70758-7 Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2709-4 Edited by: Mary C. Beaudry and James Symonds Chapter Authors: Julia A. King, Associate Professor of Anthropology St. Mary’s College of Maryland Edward E. Chaney In the…