What are some of the historical origins of racial categories and how have they changed over time?
What are some of the historical origins of racial categories and how have they changed over time?
| · PROMPT QUESTIONS: What are some of the historical origins of racial categories and how have they changed over time? In what ways are ideas around race and sex represented, expressed, inhabited, and/or contested in Latin American societies? In other words, when and how does race/sex become salient in different context? Why might it be important to focus explicitly on race relations (or intersectionality) as opposed to ethnicity or class? What methodological and conceptual frameworks have researchers engaged to analyze the inter-workings of racial, ethnic, sexual, spatial, socio-economic and political orders? What are some of the contributions of anthropology for understanding the sources and nature of exisiting racism and sexism in different contexts today? |
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Indian and White
Body politics in black and white: Señoras, Mujeres, Blanqueamiento and Miss Esmeraldas 1997–1998, Ecuador
Harrison, Faye V. 1991. “Ethnography as Politics,” In Decolonizing Anthropology- Moving Further Toward an Anthropology for Liberation, edited by Faye V. Harrison. Association of Black Anthropologists- Washington, DC, 88-
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Masters Anthropology
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