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Category Archives: Black Lives Matter Syllabus Project

Black Lives Matter Syllabus Project

The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 4: Gina Athena Ulysse on “Race: The Power of an Illusion”

September 28, 2016smulla16#Blacklivesmatter, #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus, academic disciplines, African-American, Alex Castellanos, American Anthropological Association, Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness, Arlene Torres, biology, Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean, bodies, Cheryl I. Harris, classroom discussion, conquest, critical inquiry, cultural studies, dispossession, exhibit, Faye V. Harrison, France, From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, Gina Athens Ulysse, Haitian Revolution, he Story We Tell, history, Ian F. Lopez, Key and Peele, Lee D. Baker, Louisiana Purchase, Manifest Destiny, Meet the Press, Mexican-American War, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, museum, Napoleon, Native American, Norman Whitten, PBS, power, public policy, Race, Race the Floating Signifier, Race: Are We So Different, Race: The Power of an Illusion, racial classification, revisionist history, Robin D.G. Kelley, savage slot, Silencing the Past, slavery, social construction, social science, social structure, Stuart Hall, The Persistent Power of Race in the Cultural and Political Economy of Racism, The Social Construction of Race, Trail of Tears, white, White Man’s Burden, whiteness, Whiteness as Property 3 Comments

The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressing the confluence of race, policing and justice. You can see a growing bibliography of resources via our Mendeley feed. In this entry, Gina Athens Ulysse discusses the film series “Race: The Power of an Illusion.”

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Black Lives Matter Syllabus Project

The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 3: Amrita Ibrahim on The People and the Police

September 21, 2016smulla16#Blacklivesmatter, #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus, Amrita Ibrahim, black, Black community, Charles Cassell, city government, community, control, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Robert Shellow, experiment, failures, Georgetown, guinea pigs, impasse, Junior Cadets, Marion Barry, Metropolitan Police Department (DC), National Archives, Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), pilot district project, police, police reform, police-community relations, policing in the contemporary world, protests, suspicion, The people and the police, washington D.C, white 1 Comment

The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressing the confluence of race, policing and justice. You can see a growing bibliography of resources via our Mendeley feed. In this entry, Amrita Ibrahim discusses the film, “The People and the Police”.

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Black Lives Matter Syllabus Project

The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus, Week 2: Elizabeth Chin on bell hooks (and Sidney Mintz, Voltaire, and Kara Walker)

September 13, 2016smulla16#Blacklivesmatter, #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus, Anastacia, bell hooks, black, Brooklyn, domination, Domino Sugar Factory, Elizabeth Chin, England, gaze, horrors, justice, Kara Walker, Labor, master, Mynheer Vanderdendur, oppositionality, pasadena, policing, political economy, power, Race, rape, Sidney Mintz, slavery, sugar, sugarcanes, Sweetness and Power, the oppositional gaze, theOppositionalGaze, Voltaire, white 3 Comments

The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressing the confluence of race, policing and justice. You can see a growing bibliography of resources via our Mendeley feed. In this entry, Elizabeth Chin discusses bell hook’s “The Oppositional Gaze.”

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Black Lives Matter Syllabus Project

The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus, Week 1: Sameena Mulla on Aimee Meredith Cox’s Shapeshifters

September 7, 2016smulla16#Blacklivesmatter, African-American, Aimee Meredith Cox, Andre Lepecki, anthropology, choreography, Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, dance, Detroit, Duke University Press, Fresh Start Homeless Shelter, girls, Jeb Aram Middlebrook, Race, Sameena Mulla, Shapeshifters, Sharrell D. Luckett, The Drama Review, women 2 Comments

The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressing the confluence of race, policing and justice. You can see a growing bibliography of resources via our Mendeley feed. In this entry, Sameena Mulla discusses Aimee Meredith Cox’s Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship.

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Black Lives Matter Syllabus Project

Introducing: The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project

August 30, 2016smulla16#Blacklivesmatter, #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus, anthropology, Kevin Karpiak, police, racial profiling, racism, Sameena Mulla, use of force, violence 6 Comments

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The editors of Anthropoliteia would like to welcome Dr. Sameena Mulla to introduce our newest project, The Black Lives Matter Syllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressing the confluence of race, policing and justice.

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