Congratulations to Dr. Jemima Pierre on the publication of The Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader (Princeton University Press). The book is an anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropology and is co-edited by Dr. Jemima Pierre, Dr. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús (Princeton University) and Dr. Junaid Rana (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
“This breathtaking collection provides a multitemporal, cross-geographical framing of white supremacy as a normative regime of disciplinary method and epistemology. By curating a robustly global analysis, The Anthropology of White Supremacy makes an indelible contribution to the insurgent streams of the critical social sciences. This volume is an indispensable pedagogical and theoretical tool.”
About the Book
About the BookWhite supremacy, an entrenched global system that emerged alongside European colonialism, is based on presumed biological and cultural differences, racist practices, the hypervaluation of whiteness, and the devaluation of nonwhites. Anthropology has been shaped by—and has helped to shape—white supremacy, yet the discipline also offers powerful tools for understanding this system at a global scale. The Anthropology of White Supremacy gathers original essays from a diverse, international group of anthropologists to explore how this phenomenon works both within anthropology and in cultural and political structures around the world.
The book features historical and ethnographic analysis about Brazil, Iceland, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Palestine, Senegal, South Africa, and the United States, and addresses the ways white supremacy impacts a broad range of issues, including finance, advertising and media representations, militarism, police training, migration, and development.
The Anthropology of White Supremacy demonstrates not only how anthropology can help us to better comprehend white supremacy, but also how the discipline can help us begin to dismantle it.
The contributors include Omolade Adunbi, Samar Al-Bulushi, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Michael L. Blakey, Mitzi Uehara Carter, Subhadra Mitra Channa, Celina de Sá, Vanessa Díaz, Britt Halvorson, Faye V. Harrison, Sarah Ihmoud, Anthony R. Jerry, Darryl Li, Kristín Loftsdóttir, Christopher A. Loperena, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Jemima Pierre, Jean Muteba Rahier, Laurence Ralph, Renya K. Ramirez, Junaid Rana, Joshua Reno, Rhea Rahman, Jonathan Rosa, Shalini Shankar, Shannon Speed, and Maria Dyveke Styve.
