Happy Holidays from the team at Transforming Anthropology! We hope this season is filled with peace, love and rest for you all!

Transforming Anthropology is looking for interns with a passion for Black anthropology to join our Social Media Team! Apply by January 19th using the Google Form linked in our bio. We look forward to hearing from you!

“Ghosted: Race, Health & the Haunting of Medical Systems” traced the spectral dimensions of health inequity—how Black and Indigenous communities are erased in data, neglected in care, and rendered invisible by the very systems meant to protect them. #ABAxTA_NOLA

Recap of a roundtable on “The Anthropology of White Supremacy,” Studio 10 📍 #ABAxTA_NOLA

At “Shadows: Addressing Our Past, Reconciling the Present within the African Diaspora”, Dr. Fairweather and Dr. Escalada Invite us to think about how our youth are being taught the shared histories of people affected by chattel slavery in America and within the African Diaspora.

Courtney D. Morris on the petrochemical industry, “I felt an urgency to document and create a counter archive of the Black and Indigenous communities in Mossville…I photographed self portraits and the seemingly empty sites that had been demolished to make the unseeable seen.” #ABAxTA_NOLA

Happening now in Salon E, Habitable Air: Urban Inequality in the Time of Client change #ABAxTA_NOLA

Kicking off our ABAxTA session spotlights, we’re reporting live from the roundtable on “Fugitive Anthropology: Embodying Activist Research” #ABAxTA_NOLA

Our latest issue on the “Archives of Black Anthropology” is now available online! We are thrilled to share this special issue and to invite our readers to engage in dialogue with our intellectual ancestors and meditate on an archive that crosses borders, languages, and histories.

TA and the @assocofblackanthro.bsky.social are collaborating again on AAA coverage this year! Follow the hashtag #ABAxTA_NOLA to tag us in photos, follow online discussions, and connect with fellow attendees! We can’t wait to see you in New Orleans! @americananthro.bsky.social

@ujju.bsky.social's recent ethnography, Unsettling Choice, critically contextualizes school choice policy in the Manhattan Valley within the broader context of neoliberalism and the discourse of education as a public good.

In our current issue, Maya Stovall Dumas and Alex B. Hill argue that white supremacy should be 𝘵𝘩𝘦 anthropological subject of study, offering five white supremacist principles theorized through the context of Detroit.

Interested in expanding your understanding of sovereignty through the lens of affect? Read Alexandra Sánchez Rolón's review of Sovereignty Unhinged, a critical volume edited by Deborah Thomas and Joseph Masco that centralizes affect in the analysis and disruption of sovereignty’s current condition.

In her article “Gendered Disaster Recovery: Radical Care Work in New York City after Hurricane María,” Lisa Figueroa Jahn centers the stories and experiences of the working-class Latina disaster case managers who supported displaced Puerto Ricans in the aftermath of Hurricane María.

For scholars with an interest in Black resistance movements, critical ethnographies and Black geographies, Damien M. Sojoyner's Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums will be of interest to you!

For fans of Tyler the Creator and Frank Ocean, this is for you! In his essay in our latest issue, Jeff Gu mines the politics of coming out, public performance, and black queer masculinity in a comparative analysis of the discographies and personas of both artists.

Scholars and students working in and beyond anthropology will find Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West by Karla Slocum an important contribution to the literature on Black placemaking and rurality.

In our current issue, Kessie Alexandre follows the stewards of community gardens and urban green spaces in Newark, challenging reductive narratives that position Black people as solely alienated or traumatized by nature and land as a result of slavery and its afterlives.

Our first issue under the editorial leadership of Christen A. Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson begins with a letter to our readers marking a new chapter for the journal and grappling with the “struggle for liberation” that is the “very foundation of Black anthropology.”

Check out the lineup of articles and book reviews in our current issue! Which are you reading first? Read the full issue here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tra/curr...

Our spring issue is out! The issue, the first under the new editorial leadership of Christen Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson, features beautiful cover art by Madjeen Isaac and articles on Black geographies, queer Black hip-hop discographies, and state violence and “witch talk” in the DR.

The spring issue of @transformanthro.bsky.social —and debut issue with my coeditor Christen Smith—is out! Read for articles on Black geographies, state violence in Haiti/Quisqeya, and queer hip hop genealogies. Thanks to Madjeen Isaac for the cover art! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tra/2025...