Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families
Living in the United States without legal status has always been problematic. In recent years, however, intensified forms of enforcement…
Posts Tagged 'America'
Addicted.pregnant.poor
In addicted.pregnant.poor, Kelly Ray Knight (2015) provides an ethnographic portrait of extremely marginalized, drug-using, and pregnant women living in the daily-rent hotels (referred to as “single room occupancy” housing, or SROs) of…
The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention
Sexual violence has recently received considerable media attention, featuring stories of campus rape in the U.S., and sexual assault in…
Uncivil Youth: Race, Activism and Affirmative Governmentality
Uncivil Youth: Race, Activism and Affirmative Governmentality emerges in a historical moment within which renewed attention is being paid to…
God’s Gangs: Barrio Ministry, Masculinity, and Gang Recovery
God’s Gangs by sociologist Edward Orozco Flores examines how members of Latino street gangs in Los Angeles are leaving gangs…
Culture in Conflict: Irregular Warfare, Culture Policy and the Marine Corps
In 2006, Paula Holmes-Eber agreed to teach Anthropology at Marine Corps University (MCU), not as a military instructor, but…
No Billionaire Left Behind: Satirical Activism in America
Popular accounts disagree: are we living in an age of irony or a post-ironic era? On the one hand…
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Seth M. Holmes, a physician-anthropologist, ethnographically captures the social and physical suffering of Triqui migrant farmworkers in the United States…
Broken Links, Enduring Ties: American Adoption Across Race, Class, and Nation
Linda J. Seligman joins a number of sociologists, historians and anthropologists tracking in some detail the “kinds of families and…
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 