Issue 18

Confronting Race & Racism

May 2013

Photo: "Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi."  Marion Post Wolcott, circa 1939.  From the Library of Congress, part of a larger collection of Farm Security Administration photographs of signs that enforced racial discrimination.

Contents

Introduction: Racism, hidden away

Ryan Anderson

Race matters and anthropology counts!

Agustin Fuentes

Researching Race While Being Raced: Reflections on Race Politics in Anthropology

Nicole Truesdell

Race and the public perception of anthropology

Francine Barone

Not all White Men Are Rich:Being an Anthropologist and a Suitor in Ghana, West Africa

Douglas La Rose

Medicine in black and white

Candace Moore

Cosmopolitan apartheid? The racial landscape of Contemporary Colombia

Steven Bunce

Five Questions with Jonathan Marks