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Transforming Anthropology is the flagship journal for the Association of Black Anthropologists
Cambridge, MA
Joined July 2015
Our spring issue is out! The issue, the first under the new leadership of Christen Smith and @RyanCecilJobson, features beautiful cover art by @MadjeenIsaac and articles on Black geographies, queer Black hip-hop discographies, and state violence and “witch talk” in the DR.
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Reviewed by Ashley Jackson, Slocum’s text offers “encouragement in the everyday wish for Black places.” Read the full review by following the link in our bio!
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Scholars and students working in and beyond anthropology will find Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West by Karla Slocum an important contribution to the literature on Black placemaking and rurality.
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Distinguishing between the garden and the plantation, Alexandre shows, through rich ethnographic detail, how forms of Black environmental belonging and diasporic place-making emerge through tending and cultivation. Find the link to download and read the full article in our bio!.
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In our current issue, Kessie Alexandre follows the stewards of community gardens and urban green spaces in Newark, challenging reductive narratives that position Black people as solely alienated or traumatized by nature and land as a result of slavery and its afterlives.
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Our first issue under the editorial leadership of Christen A. Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson begins with a letter to our readers marking a new chapter for the journal and grappling with the “struggle for liberation” that is the “very foundation of Black anthropology.”
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Start reading the issue at and follow us over at @tranformanthro.bsky.social!.
journals.uchicago.edu
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Happy Friday! Start your weekend with Chinonye Otuonye's review , _Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject (2022)_, by Biko Mandela Gray!
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Explore the intersection of ritual, identity, and spirituality in El compromiso de las sombras. Read this moving film review by Dr. Joshua K. Reason in our latest Issue #Anthropology #EthnographicFilm #TransIdentity
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Reviewed by Sebastian Jackson in our current issue, Boersema’s book is a “must-read for scholars, teachers, and activists interested in contemporary racial formations and discourses of Whiteness in settler (post)colonial societies.”
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Shifting focus away from Euro—western understandings of race and racial capitalism, Haruyama’s investigation of Chinese extractivism challenges simplistic understandings of gendered racial capitalism, offering an ethnographically-rich examination of Chinese-African relations.
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In “‘South-South’ Capitalist Extractive Patriarchy,” Justin Lee Haruyama examines the raced, gendered, and classed everyday interactions between Chinese men and Zambian women, shaped by the larger context of Chinese-operated mines in Zambia.
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Happy Monday! Start the week off with Ampson Hagan's insightful article, "A Humanitarian and Imperial Return: New Themes of Return in the Repatriation of African Migrants from Niger." In this piece, Hagan theorizes the moral and ontological anti-Black violence of "return."
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As we continue the rollout of our latest issue, check out this book review of Maboula Soumahoro's _Black is the Journey, Africana the Name_ by Dr. Suzie Telep!
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