AbstractRural electric cooperatives—also known as electric membership corporations (EMCs)—emerged in the 1930s to electrify rural areas not served by for-profit utilities. Today, EMCs power 56% of the...

AbstractIn the years following Hurricane Katrina, most of the decision-makers who converted the New Orleans public school system into a network of privately managed charter schools, closed schools and...

AbstractThis article reframes the discussion of Black underrepresentation in conservation from a question of absence to a question of presence. Based on twenty-seven months of ethnographic research in...

Information and images related to the photographic work of Wendel A. White. Projects include Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, Red Summer, & Schools for the Colored.

Join us this Women’s History Month for a lunch and learn honoring and engaging with the archives and scholarship of Black feminist anthropologists Zora Neale Hurston and Eslanda Goode Robeson! Drawin...

Abstract This essay examines the history and culture of African-Brazilian religious houses (also called terreiros do candomblé) in Brazil’s modern urban cities. It was first published as chapter 3 of…

Abstract Michel-Rolph Trouillot delivered this paper as part of a session entitled “Histories of Commodification: Papers in Honor of Sidney Mintz” at the 1992 American Anthropological Association…