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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
From 2022-2024, co-authors Wan R. Smith and Kristin D. Phillips led an energy justice initiative to address governance issues and racial segregation within rural electric cooperatives, “support[ing] Black Georgians to reach the levers of power and to leverage change.”
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice, author Damien M. Sojoyner draws on the collections at the Southern California Library to examine “carcerality as an archival modality.”
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In her timely article in our current issue, Melinda González offers an important critique of academia and call to action. Read the full article here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football, Tracie Canada draws on rich ethnographic research to examine the lived experiences of Black college football players navigating an industry shaped by exploitation and racial inequality.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In our current issue, Christien Tompkins examines the landscape of education reform in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, with a specific focus on how Black professionals have engaged with reform movements and organizations.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Enrich your weekend with this stunning review of Christopher A. Loperena’s book, The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras (2022). Written by Paul Joseph López Oro!
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In our current issue, Alexandria Casteel examines practices of Black ecological care in Baltimore, asserting a counter-institutional presence of black conservation practices that “remake conservation in the image of what Black communities have already been doing all along.”
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Check out this book review in our new issue!  Unseen Flesh, is an ethnographic account of Black lesbian experiences with health, well-being, and medical discrimination in Brazil.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Check out Daniel Ferman-Leon’s new article featured in our Spring 2026 TA issue. #TransformingAnthropology #BlackGeographies #AntiBlackness #Financialization
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
TA Vol. 34 No. 1 is now available! Read Christen A. Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson’s full editorial by following the link in our bio!
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Our Spring 2026 Issue is out now! With articles on Black geographies and ecological care, educational reform, institutional exclusion, and residential segregation, this issue moves across sites of US Empire while insisting on unsettling dominant spatial orders and conjuring geographies of our own.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Join us this Women’s History Month on March 23 (12-1 pm ET) for a lunch and learn honoring and engaging with the archives and scholarship of Black feminist anthropologists Zora Neale Hurston and Eslanda Goode Robeson!  Register here: bit.ly/TABFAMarch23
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
In our current issue, we uplift and celebrate the legacy and scholarship of Marlene Cunha, a pathfinding Black Brazilian anthropologist and activist whose work has often been under-recognized in the Brazilian academy and in anglophone North American anthropology.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Only a few days after João Alípio Cunha’s birth, his mother, the pathfinding Black Brazilian anthropologist and activist Marlene Cunha, passed away. Marlene Cunha’s archive was safeguarded by Marlene’s mother in a closet until João was ready to share his mother’s legacy.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
In “The Terreiro as an Ethnic Expression,” Black Brazilian anthropologist and activist Marlene Cunha examines the history and culture of African-Brazilian religious houses (also called terreiros do candomblé) in Brazil’s modern urban cities.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Our special issue honors Black intellectual elders whose work has shaped the field. Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949-2012) was an anthropologist and historian that spent his life committed to the study of the Caribbean and its place in modernity.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Our current issue contains a brilliant reflection by Alyssa A.L James on Trouillot's line about the "strange sweetness about commodities." For James, the estranged commodity is not just historically produced but affectively and spatially "remade, negotiated, and contested."
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Happy Sunday! Don't miss this thoughtful commentary by Alyssa Paredes, where she reflects on the divergent visions of an "anthropology of commodities" from Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Arjun Appadurai.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The team at Transforming Anthropology is devastated to learn of the passing of A. Lynn Bolles. Dr. Bolles was a groundbreaking anthropologist and Professor Emerita in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
For our special issue we are honored to feature Michel-Rolph Trouillot's previously unpublished manuscript "Banana Wars: The Sweetness of Commodities," edited by Ryan Cecil Jobson.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Dr. Prisca Gayles explores how Medeiros & Perry’s "Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean" disrupts epistemic erasure and centers Black women as "bearers of knowledge." A must-read for anyone looking to globalize Black studies. 📚
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Our special issue honors Black intellectual elders whose work has been under-recognized in anthropology. Ellen Irene Diggs (1906–1998) was a pioneering anthropologist, curator, and educator who challenged biological racism and advanced a global, diasporic framework.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
In our current issue, Maya J. Berry highlights the legacy of Black US-American anthropologist Irene Diggs, exploring how her global perspective on Black history shaped her vision for the field.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
As we open Black History Month, we honor Zora Neale Hurston—an anthropologist who refused to treat Black life as a problem, an absence, or an object to be explained.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Happy Friday! Head into the weekend with this wonderful review of Erin L. Durban's _The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti_ written by Nessette Falu. In this review, Falu details Durban's contributions to the fields of anthropology, Black queer studies and Caribbean studies.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
In our current issue, Pyar Seth examines the ethnographic work of Zora Neale Hurston through the lens of Saidiya Hartman's "critical fabulation," arguing that Hurston's commitment to reframing Black sociality establishes her as a progenitor of this intellectual tradition.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The review essay by Gabrielle Mahabeer in our current issue brings together three recent works on Obeah and Orisa in Trinidad and Tobago. Mahabeer synthesizes the “distinct temporalities and traditions” in each text to “provide a syllabus of Africana-world-making technologies."
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Our special issue offers readers an opportunity to honor our Black intellectual elders and ancestors, especially those who have been historically under-recognized in anthropology. Read about Eslanda Goode Robeson and her anthropological praxis in our current issue!
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
In our current issue, Nala K. Williams highlights the work of Black feminist anthropologist Eslanda Goode Robeson, showing how Robeson’s African Journey offered a critical counternarrative to notions of African inferiority and insisted on the unity of Black peoples globally.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Our special issue, “Archives of Black Anthropology,” invites our readers to engage in intergenerational dialogue with our intellectual elders and to reflect on a tradition of Black anthropologists “appropriat[ing] anthropological methods in pursuit of Black liberation.”
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Happy Holidays from the team at Transforming Anthropology! We hope this season is filled with peace, love and rest for you all!
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Transforming Anthropology is looking for interns with a passion for Black anthropology to join our Social Media Team! Apply by January 19th using the Google Form linked in our bio. We look forward to hearing from you!
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
“Ghosted: Race, Health & the Haunting of Medical Systems” traced the spectral dimensions of health inequity—how Black and Indigenous communities are erased in data, neglected in care, and rendered invisible by the very systems meant to protect them. #ABAxTA_NOLA
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Recap of a roundtable on “The Anthropology of White Supremacy,” Studio 10 📍 #ABAxTA_NOLA
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
At “Shadows: Addressing Our Past, Reconciling the Present within the African Diaspora”, Dr. Fairweather and Dr. Escalada Invite us to think about how our youth are being taught the shared histories of people affected by chattel slavery in America and within the African Diaspora.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Courtney D. Morris on the petrochemical industry, “I felt an urgency to document and create a counter archive of the Black and Indigenous communities in Mossville…I photographed self portraits and the seemingly empty sites that had been demolished to make the unseeable seen.” #ABAxTA_NOLA
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Happening now in Salon E, Habitable Air: Urban Inequality in the Time of Client change #ABAxTA_NOLA
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Kicking off our ABAxTA session spotlights, we’re reporting live from the roundtable on “Fugitive Anthropology: Embodying Activist Research” #ABAxTA_NOLA
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Our latest issue on the “Archives of Black Anthropology” is now available online! We are thrilled to share this special issue and to invite our readers to engage in dialogue with our intellectual ancestors and meditate on an archive that crosses borders, languages, and histories.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
TA and the @assocofblackanthro.bsky.social are collaborating again on AAA coverage this year! Follow the hashtag #ABAxTA_NOLA to tag us in photos, follow online discussions, and connect with fellow attendees! We can’t wait to see you in New Orleans! @americananthro.bsky.social
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
@ujju.bsky.social's recent ethnography, Unsettling Choice, critically contextualizes school choice policy in the Manhattan Valley within the broader context of neoliberalism and the discourse of education as a public good.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
In our current issue, Maya Stovall Dumas and Alex B. Hill argue that white supremacy should be 𝘵𝘩𝘦 anthropological subject of study, offering five white supremacist principles theorized through the context of Detroit.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Interested in expanding your understanding of sovereignty through the lens of affect? Read Alexandra Sánchez Rolón's review of Sovereignty Unhinged, a critical volume edited by Deborah Thomas and Joseph Masco that centralizes affect in the analysis and disruption of sovereignty’s current condition.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
In her article “Gendered Disaster Recovery: Radical Care Work in New York City after Hurricane María,” Lisa Figueroa Jahn centers the stories and experiences of the working-class Latina disaster case managers who supported displaced Puerto Ricans in the aftermath of Hurricane María.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
For scholars with an interest in Black resistance movements, critical ethnographies and Black geographies, Damien M. Sojoyner's Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums will be of interest to you!
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
For fans of Tyler the Creator and Frank Ocean, this is for you! In his essay in our latest issue, Jeff Gu mines the politics of coming out, public performance, and black queer masculinity in a comparative analysis of the discographies and personas of both artists.
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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Check out the lineup of articles and book reviews in our current issue! Which are you reading first? Read the full issue here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tra/curr...
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