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.
Reviewed by Bailey A. Brown, Aggarwal’s ethnography will be an important resource for students and scholars of education policy, the anthropology of education, and the production of place.
@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.
Focusing on the Detroit Food Map project and site-specific performances, Stovall and Hill highlight the agency Detroiters enact through their food-provisioning decisions.
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.
Distinguishing between state forms of care and radical care, Jahn shows how “precarity gives way to life-affirming practices such as community activism, the formation of networks of radical care, and in some cases the crafting of new possibilities for sociality, solidarity, and mutuality.”
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.
Reviewed by Ashley Jackson, Slocum’s text offers “encouragement in the everyday wish for Black places.” Read the full review by following the link in our bio!
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.
Distinguishing between the garden and the plantation, Alexandre shows, through rich ethnographic detail, how forms of Black environmental belonging and diasporic place-making emerge through tending and cultivation.
Find the link to download and read the full article in our bio!
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.”
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...
