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Transforming Anthropology Transforming Anthropology is the flagship journal for the Association of Black Anthropologists. Transforming Anthropology is published semiannually.

As the chief publication of the Association of Black Anthropologists, Transforming Anthropology advances scholarship across the four fields and beyond. We seek contributions that reflect the dynamic, transnational, and contested conditions of the social worlds, and work that pushes the boundaries of discipline and genre. The publication interrogates the contemporary and historical construction of

social inequities based on race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, nationality and other invidious distinctions. We remain committed to publishing material that generates dialogues among communities of scholars, activists, artists, and the people with whom they work. We invite the submission of research articles for peer review, as well as short commentaries, research reports, review essays, interviews, and other innovative formats. Submissions from advanced graduate students are especially welcome.

We are thrilled to share the cover for our first issue published with the University of Chicago Press and supported by t...
06/05/2024

We are thrilled to share the cover for our first issue published with the University of Chicago Press and supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation!

We have marked this exciting new phase of the journal with a new design, including a full-bleed cover, new fonts, and a revamp of our beloved Zora logo.

Stay tuned for the release of our Spring 2024 issue!

Submit your manuscript to Transforming Anthropology! We invite submissions of research articles for peer review, book an...
14/06/2022

Submit your manuscript to Transforming Anthropology!

We invite submissions of research articles for peer review, book and film reviews or review essays, as well as short commentaries, interviews, and unconventional forms of scholarly engagement. Submissions from advanced graduate students are especially welcome.

We seek contributions that reflect the dynamic, transnational, and contested conditions of social worlds, and work that pushes the boundaries of discipline and genre.

Submit online at:http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/americananthro-ta

Have you seen the film Bakosó: Afrobeats of Cuba (2019), directed by Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi? The film details the developm...
27/05/2022

Have you seen the film Bakosó: Afrobeats of Cuba (2019), directed by Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi? The film details the development of Bakosó, a contemporary African music-inspired musical genre, in Cuba.

Read Dr. Sheriden M. Booker’s review on the film here: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/traa.12232

Join Transforming Anthropology in honoring and remembering the life and work of Leith Mullings on February 24 from 1:00-...
12/02/2022

Join Transforming Anthropology in honoring and remembering the life and work of Leith Mullings on February 24 from 1:00-2:30 pm ET.

This event will bring together many of the contributors to TA’s special issue dedicated to Leith Mullings. Gather in community with Deborah A. Thomas, Lee D. Baker, Riché J. Daniel Barnes, A. Lynn Bolles, Michael L. Blakey, and Alaka Wali, to reflect on the teachings and profound impact of Leith Mullings.

Register at: bit.ly/RememberingLeith

In the The Racist Anti-Racism of American Anthropology, Baker shares stories of assimilation as racism. Considering the ...
10/02/2022

In the The Racist Anti-Racism of American Anthropology, Baker shares stories of assimilation as racism.

Considering the orphan train and Indian boarding school movements and Boas’ study of immigrant and Negro amalgamation, Baker demonstrates how attempts at anti-racism “articulated racism and contributed to the consolidation of whiteness.”

Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12222

This  , like every month, we try to highlight Black feminist anthro folks and the work they do for Black liberation.  In...
03/02/2022

This , like every month, we try to highlight Black feminist anthro folks and the work they do for Black liberation.

In our current issue, Dr. Riché J. Daniel Barnes stages an analytic encounter between two Black female ethnographers, Leith Mullings and herself.

Drawing on years of engaging with Dr. Mullings and her work, Dr. Barnes explores the development of her research on the Black professional elite and the complexity of divergent Black women’s experiences.

Find the full article here:https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12224.

What is on your reading list this year?In our current issue, Deborah Thomas applies some of Leith Mullings’s insights ab...
03/01/2022

What is on your reading list this year?

In our current issue, Deborah Thomas applies some of Leith Mullings’s insights about the changing dimensions of racism to her own current study of world-changing transformations. Using the concept of epochal shift, Thomas considers the intensification of Chinese investment overseas, specifically its implications in the Jamaican context.

Read Thomas’ full article here: https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12217

Dr. A. Lynn Bolles has also contributed an essay honoring Leith in the current issue. In it, Bolles discusses Mullings’ ...
14/12/2021

Dr. A. Lynn Bolles has also contributed an essay honoring Leith in the current issue.

In it, Bolles discusses Mullings’ collection of essays, On Our Own Terms (1997). Bolles regards Mullings’ Black feminist anthropological text as an enduring “template for understanding the critical importance of native anthropology/memoir, history, political economy, the politics of health and illness, and praxis.”

Mullings invites us to embrace our “moral and theoretical responsibility to take action with the goal of being responsible to our community at home and throughout the African Diaspora.’”

Find Bolles essay and tribute to Leith at https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12218.

Today marks one year since Leith Mullings joined our ancestors. We are honoured to celebrate Leith’s legacy, with an ent...
13/12/2021

Today marks one year since Leith Mullings joined our ancestors.

We are honoured to celebrate Leith’s legacy, with an entire issue devoted to her life & scholarship.

This quote, from Leith’s 2013 AAA presidential address, is discussed in Remembering Leith, Michael L. Blakey's tribute to Dr. Mullings, which can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12215.

We invite you all to join us in remembering Leith and the profound legacy she left. We will also be hosting a community event honoring her in the new year.

You can also find her full presidential address here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb8yLzXPH5M

Each contribution to this special issue honoring Leith Mullings and the 50th anniversary of the ABA by Riché J. Daniel B...
08/12/2021

Each contribution to this special issue honoring Leith Mullings and the 50th anniversary of the ABA by Riché J. Daniel Barnes "demonstrates the breadth, reach, and impact of her scholarship, teaching, and mentorship on generations of Black anthropologists."

How has Leith impacted you?

"It is our hope that this special issue will be able to spark a more expansive recognition and commitment to carrying on the legacy of Leith’s life and work for Black liberation."

Find the introduction to this special issue here: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/traa.12223

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