Comfort Clothes & Covid-19
April 8, 2020
—Lynn S. Neal
As we face unprecedented updates about the impact of COVID-19, clothing can help make physical and spiritual comfort concrete
Category: Anthropology
Investigating Reproductive Injustice
July 1, 2019
Black women are more likely to give birth prematurely than any other group of women in the US—Dána-Ain Davis explores this reproductive injustice shrouded in racism
In Black Panther and Wakanda, extraordinary possibilities are realized
March 13, 2018
—Chandra D. Bhimull
In Wakanda, there, is a kingdom, is a nation; are traditions, innovations, scientific marvels and machine-driven feats, natures held in high regard; is where women are unapologetically brilliant and unflinchingly strong; is a where without whiteness; is black genius. In Wakanda, “extraordinary possibilities” are realized, whereas in reality the process of colonization had them “wiped out.”
Dove, How Do You Get So Clean and White? A Racist Trope Reemerges
October 11, 2017
—Carl Zimring
In light of the recent controversy over Dove’s body wash ad, Carl Zimring revisits the history of racist attitudes towards hygiene in order to better understand the roots of present-day inequalities
Say Her Name! Confronting Erasure and Rethinking Possibilities for a Democratic Future
July 19, 2017
—Stanley I. Thangaraj
The work of women of color and trans people of color often goes unrecognized in our larger world. This silence informs us about the politics of living and which bodies and lives are made to count. Their names must be said, or the very system of inequality will continue to operate and grow.
An interview with Bertin M. Louis, author of My Soul Is in Haiti
June 15, 2017
In this interview, Bertin M. Louis discusses protestantism in the Haitian diaspora of the Bahamas and his role as a scholar-activist and cultural critic of American anti-black racism and white supremacy.
America’s water whiplash
May 16, 2017
—Jeremy Schmidt
The Oroville Dam cannot be abandoned as it stands. Yet it is not sufficient to merely patch the problems when water’s erosive force is set to undermine the foundations of both material and myth.
Ranger Revolution
February 10, 2017
—Kerry Mitchell
The National Park Service and the fight against alternative facts.