Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums is a poignant account of how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people—and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future.At the Southern California Library—a community organiz
By Mareike Winchell, author of After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in BoliviaIn 2010, I was just beginning an ethnographic study of Quechua water activists in Cochabamba. At the cusp of starting my doctoral fieldwork, I had a conversation with an activist friend in Bolivi
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This post is published in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association conference in Vancouver, Canada. Check for other posts from the conference. #AAACASCABy Greg Beckett, author of There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-PrinceHaiti is in the midst of