Faye V Harrison

University of Illinoi at Urbana-Champaign · African American Studies & Anthropology with affiliations with African Studies Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Women & Gender in Global Perspectives

Interview invitation sent to Faye Harrison, in a moment really memorable and very important to me (and my community) as transgender and latin american woman. The audience was primarily the Journal (RE-DOC - UERJ) but for the late insertion, we find another productions of researchers in education interested in race, xenophobia, indentity and interes...

The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) is the world's largest and oldest forum for anthropologists. Founded in 1948 but with predecessor organizations dating back to 1865, the IUAES's activities and membership reflect the broad epistemological and methodological continuum that makes anthropology unique as a dis...

Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline led by water protectors from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota have brought human rights violations related to Indigenous sovereignty, environmental justice, and sustainable development into the foreground of political debate in the United States. The struggle at Standing Rock has been strengt...

Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline led by water protectors from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota have brought human rights violations related to Indigenous sovereignty, environmental justice, and sustainable development into the foreground of political debate in the United States. The struggle at Standing Rock has been strengt...

Examines the political and policy climate in the United States under the current presidential administration and the power of the oligarchy that backs it. Domestic and foreign policy implications are addressed as well as the potential role that public intellectuals, particularly social scientists, can play in clarifying confusion and shifting terms...

An extended conversation or interview on decolonizing anthropological knowledge and practice that University of Colorado, Boulder anthropologists Carole McGranahan, Kaifa Roland and Bianca Williams had with visiting scholar Faye Harrison in March 2016.

This is the chapter that appeared in The Gender of Globalization. I posted the page proofs a while back. Although the changes are minimal, this is what was eventually published as one of the chapters, along with the introduction, that provided a framework or orientation for Nandini Gunewardena and Ann Kingsolver's co-edited collection, which in 201...

At the present theoretical moment, there appears to be a multiplication of sites where various forms of theorizing occur and are being acknowledged as such. This may be leading toward the creation of more decentralized and decolonized conditions for reworking and, when possible, formulating new social theory. This essay addresses projects that move...

This essay explores ways that theory is being engaged in recent trends in sociocultural anthropology. It addresses how some anthropologists are rethinking and working with theory in their social and cultural analyses. The current theoretical moment is conditioned by an expansion of the space and a multiplication of the sites where various forms of...

This essay offers a conceptual and theoretical overview of perspectives held by feminist researchers and other critical social analysts on the economic and ecological crises that are intensifying under the neoliberal restructuring of global capitalism. The most problematic effects of globalization are engendering gross disparities in wealth, health...

Article on St Clair Drake's influence on graduate student research at Stanford University during the 1970s, even after his retirement as Professor of Anthropology, Sociology, and African & African American Studies. His thinking on the African diaspora and on the Caribbean are highlighted in this reflexive essay by one of his former students. This a...

Neighborhood Watch coordinator George Zimmerman's February 2012 fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, 17-year old African American in a gated community in Sanford, Florida, has raised serious questions concerning racial profiling (Yancy and Jones 2012). Racial profiling can be defined as: Any action undertaken for reasons of safety, securit...

Book review

This is a critical analysis of the issues that Alisse Waterston and Maria Vesperi's Anthropology off the Shelf addresses..

If, as Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2008) and others have argued, another knowledge or other knowledges are possible beyond the imperial gatekeeping of northern epistemologies, then anthro-pology as we know it must be decolonized and transformed (Harrison 2010 [1991]). A fuller understanding of these processes can be informed by taking theoretical t...

If intellectuals, especially those based within academic settings, attempt to align their scholarship with the dismantling of racism in its multiple modalities and entanglements with other inequalities, then it is imperative that they collaborate in building alliances. Grassroots activists, practitioners within nongovernmental organizations, philan...

Review essay on documentary film, Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun. On the JSTOR site of Fire!!! there are links to video clips from the film accompany the essay.

Book review: Downtown Ladies is Gina A. Ulysse’s thought-provoking response to the challenge of gendering globalization as anthropologists and other social researchers encounter it across multiple local and extra-local sites where they negotiate the conditions and ferret out the evidentiary contents of fieldwork. Ulysse undertook this project in Ki...

: Joseph Jones is contributing editor for the AAA's RACE Project column in Anthropology News.

The history of what is known as feminist anthropology has developed through shifting its focus from women to gender and, in some cases transgender, interacting with other dimensions of difference. Those modes of anthropological inquiry, analysis, and theorizing that have given serious attention to lived experiences, social positions, forms of agenc...

Since 9/11 the sociopolitical and legal climate of the country has deteriorated, engendering a moral panic over national security and intensifying a longstanding trend of violating the human rights of a portion of the citizenry and immigrant population. These segments of the populace lived under de facto conditions of a police state long before the...

Final report of the AAA's 2007 Program Chair.

In 2003 the UN‘s Habitat report on urban poverty, ―The Challenge of the Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements,‖ drew a disturbing picture of a ―planet of slums‖ in which urbanization without industrialization or any other kind of meaningful economic development has become the standard in the neoliberal age. The debt crisis, structural adjustmen...

A conceptual and theoretical overview of feminist perspectives on the economic and ecological crises intensifying under the neoliberal restructuring of global capitalism. The parameters of a feminist political ecology are provided along with an analysis of the forms of scattered resistance and transnational activism emerging in response to the deep...

Historically, anthropology has occupied a central place in the construction and reconstruction of race as both an intellectual device and a social reality. Critiques of the biological concept of race have led many anthropologists to adopt a “no-race” posture and an approach to intergroup difference highlighting ethnicity-based principles of classif...

Anthropologists working in arenas of human rights advocacy must be prepared to negotiate dilemmas of human responsibility. Those focusing on racial discrimination as a breach of international human rights conventions must contend with trends in social research that feed into politically consequential claims that neither race nor racism exist as sig...

Review of: From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954. Lee D. Baker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 325 pp.

In response to Mukhopadhyay and Moses's call for biological and cultural anthropologists to reestablish a dialogue on race, anthropologists from the four major subfields join colleagues from two allied disciplines to address the possible ways in which the anthropological discourse on race can become more holistic and amenable to the urgent needs an...

Historically, anthropology has occupied a central place in the construction and reconstruction of race as both an intellectual device and a social reality. Critiques of the biological concept of race have led many anthropologists to adopt a “no-race” posture and an approach to intergroup difference highlighting ethnicity-based principles of classif...

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L'A. propose, dans le cadre d'une redefinition des projets critiques en anthropologie, de ne pas releguer les travaux des femmes, notamment des femmes de couleurs, a la peripherie comme le suggere la conception postmoderniste. Les oeuvres fictives, telle celle d'Alice Walker, « The Temple of my Familiar », sont a prendre en consideration car elles...

Publicizing endorsements for book published in 1991.

Review of: Joan Cassell. A Group Called Women: Sisterhood and Symbolism in the Feminist Movement. Waveland Press, 1989 [1977], xxvi+ 240pp., appendix, references, and index.

The ABA President for the 1989-91 term discusses the agenda for the association in light of the urgent domestic and world problems that anthropologists are encouraged to investigate. The tone and tenor are set for what the ABA would accomplish in the next several years. Those accomplishments included the publication of Decolonizing Anthropology in...

Performance, such as dance and street/community theater, is considered an appropriate medium for ethnographic representation and the evocation of anthropological knowledge, especially for audiences wider than the readers to whom most academic books and journal articles are addressed. This article tells the story of one anthropologist's experiment w...