Tag: Transforming Anthropology

  • In contrast, research reported in this article indicates strong similarities in the construction and the operation race the entire Americas. Genotype, or African ancestry, is shown to matter in Latin America; phenotype, or appearance, is shown to matter in the United States.

  • This article aims to examine changing understandings of race in Brazil, not as it transforms larger social and political structures, but as it is continuously reframed on the micro-social or everyday level. I argue that the critical practice of learning about and responding to subjugated knowledge and alternative experiences have the potential to transgress boundaries…

  • Galileo Wept: A Critical Assessment of the Use of Race in Forensic Anthropology Transforming Anthropology Volume 9, Issue 2 (July 2000) pages 19–29 DOI: 10.1525/tran.2000.9.2.19 Diana Smay Emory University George Armelago, Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropolgy (1936-2014) Emory University Anthropology has been haunted by the misuse of the race concept since its beginnings. Although…

  • This article examines Brazilian ideals of female beauty and explores their impact on Black women’s subjective experiences. The analysis focuses on hair as a key site for investigating how Black women’s bodies and identities are marked by Brazilian discourses on race and gender. Despite Brazil’s image as a “racial democracy,” derogatory images of Black women…

  • Caroline Bond Day (1889–1948): A Black Woman Outsider Within Physical Anthropology Transforming Anthropology Volume 20, Issue 1, April 2012 pages 79–89 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-7466.2011.01145.x Anastasia C. Curwood, Visiting Fellow James Weldon Johnson Institute for Race and Difference Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia This article examines the significance of Caroline Bond Day’s vindicationist anthropological work on mixed-race families…

  • In this article, I draw on the experiences of students who participated in the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Program in Spanish Language and Caribbean Studies, in Santiago, Dominican Republic, from 2000 to 2004, to situate the seemingly conflicting racial projects of the Dominican Republic and the United States.

  • Transforming Mulatto Identity in Colonial Guatemala and El Salvador; 1670-1720 Transforming Anthropology Volume 12, Issue 1-2 (January 2004) Pages 9 – 20 DOI: 10.1525/tran.2004.12.1-2.9 Paul Lokken, Assistant Professor of Latin American History Bryant University, Smithfield Rhode Island This article examines an important moment in the history of people of African origins in the region now encompassed…