Courage amid Catastrophe: A Conversation between Juno Salazar Parreñas and Greg Beckett
n this conversation, Juno Salazar Parreñas and Greg Beckett discuss shared themes of their work, including survival, vulnerability, uncertainty, and ethnography as a therapeutic practice for grief.
Special Section: Face and Race
This special section seeks to denaturalize the face as a neutral abstraction and to focus on the relations through which it comes about and the relations it generates, as well as empirically engage with the many ways the face appears in scientific and other practices.
Disease and Pandemics
This virtual issue, prompted by the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, examines a range of issues, from cultural conceptions of illness and the biomedical aspects of transmission to ethnographic insights from the front lines of treatment and the economic, political, and racial inequalities that shape the trajectories of disease.
“Everything is Permitted”: Trump, White Supremacy, Fascism
In this commentary, Nicholas De Genova examines Trump, facism, and the "ethos of civil war" that defines contemporary US politics.
Forum on “Anthropology and the Riddle of White Supremacy”
This forum features responses to Junaid Rana's article “Anthropology and the Riddle of White Supremacy” by Mark Anderson, Zareena Grewal, Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj, and Ghassan Hage.
From the Editor: Rights, Gifts, Repair
Read the introduction to the March 2020 issue from editor-in-chief Deborah Thomas.
Race, Racism, and White Supremacy
This virtual issue on whiteness and white supremacy supplements the special section on white supremacy published in the March 2020 issue of American Anthropologist. The articles will be free to access through April 30.
The Incredible Simplicity of Anti-Imperialism
In this post, Kali Rubaii examines anti-imperial struggles in Iraq.