A retrospective roundtable honoring John Clarke.
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“Good Practices,” Humanized Birth, and Waiting for Care in Brazil
If the objective is to make “good” birth a possibility for all Brazilian women, then maternal and infant health policies must make a more robust attempt to address the systematic exclusions of racially and economically marginalized Brazilians from the promise of “health for all.”
Black Masculinity in the United States
What a passionate exchange at a protest for civil rights tells us about the performance of Black masculinity as sincere investment in the Black community.
The Chilean Estallido, Plebiscite 2020, and Legacies of Truth-Telling
On November 25, 2019, against a backdrop of anti-Piñera graffiti in Santiago’s Plaza de Armas, some 50 members of the collective Chilean feminist collective, Las Tesis began to chant a rhythm now heard around the world.
Teacher-Mothers’ Lessons Learned During the Quarantine in Southern Mexico
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities in access to education, posing particular challenges for maestra-mothers and their students in Oaxaca.
Sexism by Women—Against Other Women
Women have to stop misrecognizing sexism as the behaviors and practices of men alone.
Captain Marvel Smirks All the Way to the Bank
Thirty-four minutes into Captain Marvel, our superhero, played by Oscar-winner Brie Larson, is standing in a Los Angeles parking lot wearing an intergalactic police uniform and reading an unfolded map. A man rolls in on a motorcycle, eyes her up and down, and says, “Nice scuba suit!” She barely gives him a side-eye in response, and miffed, he says, “Lighten up, honey, huh? You gonna smile for me?”
#MeToo, Believing Survivors, and Cooperative Digital Communication
The #MeToo movement—as it emerges in social interaction and digital communication—is a discursive formation that suggests at least two frames of linguistic analysis. This column seeks to unpack the hashtag’s emergence in co-oxygenated social interaction, its transformation through digital communication, and closes with brief thoughts on its limitations for transformative social justice change.
Navigating Silicon Valley’s Contradictions
You can spot the extremes on the street in Silicon Valley. You can find monumental architecture and tour “the mothership,” a gigantic circular edifice that is the home to the Apple headquarters. You might spot a few autonomous vehicles, piloted by a host of competing companies, especially Waymo, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet.
Call for Proposals: #MeToo
As stories of sexual assault and misconduct continue to make news headlines, Anthropology News invites anthropologists to reflect on the #MeToo movement and this particular moment in sexual politics. We would like your reflections on and responses to sexual harassment/violence and aspects of the #MeToo campaign in the context of the kinds of work in […]
