Resources

We offer this list of resources as a first step towards listening to and amplifying the insights of scholars, many, but not all, of whom are anthropologists.

Fall 2020 Anthropology Courses that Address Race, Racism, and Anti-racism

ANTH 1101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Lempert, Van Vleet)  
ANTH 2030 Anthropological Theory: Concepts in Context (McIsaac)  
ANTH 2105 Who Owns the Past? Contemporary Controversies and Contested Narratives  (Kaplan)
ANTH 2220 Medical Anthropology (McIsaac)  
ANTH 2250 The Anthropology of Media (Strickland)  
ANTH 2340 Ethnographic Film (Strickland)  
ANTH 2345 Race, Gender, and Intimacy in Brazil (Sosa)  
ANTH 2356: Ecological Crisis and Reparation: The Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet  (Sreenath)
ANTH 2840 Contemporary Issues of Native North America (Lempert)  
ANTH 3222 Cultural Performances (Dickey)

Recent Statements from Anthropology’s Professional Organizations  

Further Reading, Listening, and Watching on Racism, Police Brutality, and the Black Lives Matter Movement

Articles

“Introduction to the Special Section Anthropology of White Supremacy” by Aisha Beliso de Jesús and Jemima Pierre (American Anthropologist 2019)
#BlackLivesMatter: Anti-Black Racism, Police Violence, and Resistance (Hot Spots Series, Cultural Anthropology, 2015)
“Black Masculinity in the United States” by Yaa Baker (Anthropology News, 2020)
“Dear White Anthropologists, Let Not Symbolism Overshadow Substance” by Kimberley McKinson (Anthropology News, 2020)
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Study Guide (PDF)
“Museums Matter in the Current Climate of Anti-Black Racism” by Monique Scott (Anthropology News, 2020)
“Police and Policing” by Jeffrey Martin (Annual Review of Anthropology, 2018)
Race, Racism and Protesting Anthropology (Full-text in Open Anthropology, 2015)
“Raciontologies: Rethinking Anthropological Accounts of Institutional Racism and Enactments of White Supremacy in the United States” by Jonathan Rosa and Vanessa Días (American Anthropologist, 2019)
“Unapologetically Black?” by Savannah Shange (Anthropology News, 2016)
“Upsetting the Canon” by Mariam Durrani (Anthropology News, 2019)

Digital Media

“A Moment of Education and Reflection” (2020 video), Bowdoin Africana Studies Program
“Anthropology of Policing: The Persistence of Racialized Police Brutality and Community Responses” (Parts I & II, June 2020 webinars), American Anthropological Association [Note: scroll down the page to find videos and transcripts]
“Archaeology in the Time of Black Lives Matter” (2020 webinar), Columbia Center for Archaeology
“Archaeologists Respond to the Black Lives Matter Movement” (2020 article by Megan Gannon),org
Black Lives Matter Syllabus Project, (2017 blog), anthropoloteia.net
“Combating Anti-Black Racism in Brazil and Beyond” (2020 interview with Christen Smith), sapiens.org
Critical Perspectives on Police, Security, Crime, Law and Punishment around the World (blog), anthropoloteia.net
“Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore” (film), org
“Introduction to the Anthropology of Police: Law and Disorder Everywhere?” (Border Criminologies Blog, University of Oxford Faculty of Law)
“The Rebellion Against Racial Capitalism” (podcast, Robin D.G. Kelley and Hina Shamsi with Jeremy Scahill), com
#Tulsa Syllabus: The Rise, Destruction, and Rebuilding of Tulsa’s Greenwood District
“The Torture Letters” (video, Opinion Documentary by Laurence Ralph), New York Times
“Speaking of Race” (podcasts with Jim Bindon, Lesley Jo Weaver, and Erik L. Peterson), University of Alabama
“Race: Are We So Different?” (website), a public education project created by American Anthropological Association

Recent Books (indicates Bowdoin library book; **indicates Bowdoin e-book)*

The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil* (2018) by Jaime Amparo Alves
Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis (2020) by Jodi Rios
Black Lives Matter and Music* (2018) by Fernando Orejuela and Stephanie Shonekan
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California** (2007) by Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
Writing the World of Policing: The Difference Ethnography Makes* (2017) edited by Didier Fassin
From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism, and American Anthropology* (2019) by Mark Anderson
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (2020) by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles** (2016) by Damien M. Sojoyner
“Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance” (book series) edited by Kevin Karpiak, Mulla Sameena, William Garriott, and Ilana Feldman
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation* (2016) by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Anthropology, and Race in the New San Francisco** (2019) by Savannah Shange
Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco* (2019) by Savannah Shange
Racism in America: A Reader (2020) by Annette Gordon-Reed (free from Harvard U Press)
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence (2020) by Laurence Ralph

Selected Websites Amplifying the Contributions of Black Anthropologists

Archaeology in the Community
“Recent Books,” Association of Black Anthropologists
“Documenting our Experiences in the Field of Archaeology,” Society of Black Archaeologists
Transforming Anthropology (Journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists)

Funding for Anthropology Students from Historically Under-Represented Groups

Black Trowel Collective Microgrants
Society for American Archaeology Historically Underrepresented Groups Scholarship
Society for American Archaeology Scholarships for Native American and Indigenous Students