A. M. Beliso-De Jesus, Whitney Battle‐Baptiste, Ryan Cecil Jobson, Junaid Rana, Christen A. Smith
As editors of Transforming Anthropology (TA), it is our pleasure to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) by recognizing the writings and teachings of Black anthropologists who have contributed to the journal over the years. In addition to the regular research articles and book reviews included in this issue, the TA editorial team has organized a special tribute to honor our elders. We begin with an address by the new ABA President, Rich e Barnes, and then honor the recent passing of one of ABA’s founding members, anthropologist Ira E. Harrison (1933–2020), with two tribute essays. Following these essays, we include a special commentary section in celebration of ABA’s fiftieth anniversary that curates five groundbreaking essays previously published in TA by our ABA elders. To show our gratitude for and impact of these important works, a number of Black anthropologists discuss how each article matters to them. Although we are unable to re-publish the original articles in this issue, we ask that you download, read, and re-read the original essays (links included below). The five elders whose work we highlight here have made it possible for TA and the ABA to exist.
作为《转变人类学》（TA）的编辑，我们很高兴庆祝黑人人类学家协会（ABA）成立50周年，表彰多年来为该杂志做出贡献的黑人人类学家的著作和教义。除了本期的定期研究文章和书评外，TA编辑团队还组织了一次特别的致敬活动，向我们的长辈致敬。我们从新任美国律师协会主席Rich e Barnes的讲话开始，然后用两篇致敬文章来纪念美国律师协会创始成员之一、人类学家Ira e.Harrison（1933-2020）最近去世。在这些文章之后，我们为庆祝美国律师协会成立五十周年而开设了一个特别评论部分，其中策划了五篇开创性的文章，这些文章之前由我们的美国律师协会长老在TA上发表。为了表达我们对这些重要作品的感激之情和影响，一些黑人人类学家讨论了每一篇文章对他们的重要性。虽然我们无法重新发布本期的原创文章，但我们要求您下载、阅读并重新阅读原创文章（链接如下）。我们在这里强调的五位长老的工作使TA和ABA的存在成为可能。
{"title":"Honoring Our Elders","authors":"A. M. Beliso-De Jesus, Whitney Battle‐Baptiste, Ryan Cecil Jobson, Junaid Rana, Christen A. Smith","doi":"10.1111/traa.12196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12196","url":null,"abstract":"As editors of Transforming Anthropology (TA), it is our pleasure to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) by recognizing the writings and teachings of Black anthropologists who have contributed to the journal over the years. In addition to the regular research articles and book reviews included in this issue, the TA editorial team has organized a special tribute to honor our elders. We begin with an address by the new ABA President, Rich e Barnes, and then honor the recent passing of one of ABA’s founding members, anthropologist Ira E. Harrison (1933–2020), with two tribute essays. Following these essays, we include a special commentary section in celebration of ABA’s fiftieth anniversary that curates five groundbreaking essays previously published in TA by our ABA elders. To show our gratitude for and impact of these important works, a number of Black anthropologists discuss how each article matters to them. Although we are unable to re-publish the original articles in this issue, we ask that you download, read, and re-read the original essays (links included below). The five elders whose work we highlight here have made it possible for TA and the ABA to exist.","PeriodicalId":44069,"journal":{"name":"Transforming Anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"104 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/traa.12196","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45268065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kaleidoscope: Brief Reflections on Further Reflections on Anthropology and the Black Experience","authors":"J. Allen","doi":"10.1111/traa.12191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12191","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44069,"journal":{"name":"Transforming Anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"116-117"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/traa.12191","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41476528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Birkenstocks: Finding a Foothold in the “Cultural Politics of Black Masculinity”","authors":"Jonathan Gayles","doi":"10.1111/traa.12188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12188","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44069,"journal":{"name":"Transforming Anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"130 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/traa.12188","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45318549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This is an autoethnographic account of the 1991 City University of New York (CUNY) strike movement. The authors were some of the key organizers of the strike. Student mobilizations were not narrowly framed to oppose tuition hikes but conceptualized as resistance against austerity measures and the expanding war economy. This article reflects on the intersection of political activism and anthropology through the lens of our experience in the strike, the historical moment of early neoliberalism, the specificity of CUNY, and how our experience shaped our ongoing engagement as anthropologists.
{"title":"On Strike: Student Activism, CUNY, and Engaged Anthropology","authors":"K. McCaffrey, C. Kovic, C. Menzies","doi":"10.1111/traa.12183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12183","url":null,"abstract":"This is an autoethnographic account of the 1991 City University of New York (CUNY) strike movement. The authors were some of the key organizers of the strike. Student mobilizations were not narrowly framed to oppose tuition hikes but conceptualized as resistance against austerity measures and the expanding war economy. This article reflects on the intersection of political activism and anthropology through the lens of our experience in the strike, the historical moment of early neoliberalism, the specificity of CUNY, and how our experience shaped our ongoing engagement as anthropologists.","PeriodicalId":44069,"journal":{"name":"Transforming Anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"170 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/traa.12183","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46207733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Black gay and lesbian Christians belonging to a grassroots Pentecostal charismatic church spanning small towns in Southern Africa make everyday claims to normativity with interpretive recourse to biblical myths and church rituals. Members of the church embody a range of gendered and sexual self‐expressions that also tend to reproduce prevailing masculine and feminine sexual roles and subject positions. By situating their identities, rituals, and exegeses in global perspective, I argue that church members queer more orthodox biblical interpretations to create what I describe as a life‐affirming countermythology to predominant discourses of religion, gender, and sexuality that otherwise structure their lives. In sum, this article shows how vernacular hermeneutic practices can be a queering force within presumedly restrictive religious settings and demonstrates how recovering conventional ethnographic topics like myth can move Black queer anthropology and African studies toward a critically imaginative becoming.
{"title":"Countermythologies: Queering Lives in a Southern African Gay and Lesbian Pentecostal Church","authors":"Casey Golomski","doi":"10.1111/traa.12180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12180","url":null,"abstract":"Black gay and lesbian Christians belonging to a grassroots Pentecostal charismatic church spanning small towns in Southern Africa make everyday claims to normativity with interpretive recourse to biblical myths and church rituals. Members of the church embody a range of gendered and sexual self‐expressions that also tend to reproduce prevailing masculine and feminine sexual roles and subject positions. By situating their identities, rituals, and exegeses in global perspective, I argue that church members queer more orthodox biblical interpretations to create what I describe as a life‐affirming countermythology to predominant discourses of religion, gender, and sexuality that otherwise structure their lives. In sum, this article shows how vernacular hermeneutic practices can be a queering force within presumedly restrictive religious settings and demonstrates how recovering conventional ethnographic topics like myth can move Black queer anthropology and African studies toward a critically imaginative becoming.","PeriodicalId":44069,"journal":{"name":"Transforming Anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"156 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/traa.12180","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47605620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair. DeborahThomas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. xv + 301 pp. (Cloth US$104.95; Paper US$28.95)","authors":"A. Su","doi":"10.1111/traa.12182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12182","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44069,"journal":{"name":"Transforming Anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"184-185"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/traa.12182","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44663001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper, I explore how the US‐based Religious Right and white nationalist movements are both organized around a similar politics of gender rooted in defending the patriarchal family. While the broader meanings of the family differ in each framework—either providing the foundation for the racial nation or the religious order—there is surprising agreement across these movements around understanding the family as a heterosexual and patriarchal institution that is under attack. Based on long‐term ethnographic research in both movements, I show how defending the heteropatriarchal family provides valorized gendered identities for their participants along with a moral justification for prejudice, particularly through a discourse of defending women and children from feminism and queerness. This analysis shows how contemporary right‐wing and authoritarian movements rally around this family—modern, classed and raced, and patriarchal—as an anchor of stability in a time of increasing economic and social change.
{"title":"White Sexual Politics: The Patriarchal Family in White Nationalism and the Religious Right","authors":"Sophie Bjork‐James","doi":"10.1111/traa.12167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12167","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I explore how the US‐based Religious Right and white nationalist movements are both organized around a similar politics of gender rooted in defending the patriarchal family. While the broader meanings of the family differ in each framework—either providing the foundation for the racial nation or the religious order—there is surprising agreement across these movements around understanding the family as a heterosexual and patriarchal institution that is under attack. Based on long‐term ethnographic research in both movements, I show how defending the heteropatriarchal family provides valorized gendered identities for their participants along with a moral justification for prejudice, particularly through a discourse of defending women and children from feminism and queerness. This analysis shows how contemporary right‐wing and authoritarian movements rally around this family—modern, classed and raced, and patriarchal—as an anchor of stability in a time of increasing economic and social change.","PeriodicalId":44069,"journal":{"name":"Transforming Anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"58 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/traa.12167","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41380261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco. SavannahShange. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2019. xiv + 212 pp. (Cloth US$99.95; Paper US$25.95; E‐Book US$14.99)","authors":"Amelia Simone Herbert","doi":"10.1111/traa.12172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12172","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44069,"journal":{"name":"Transforming Anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"91-93"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/traa.12172","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43971586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：