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Anthropology Magazine

A photograph features a large building with four pillars across its front side. Between the pillars hang three long banners of people’s portraits alternately separated by yellow banners that read “Native Truths,” “Our Voices,” Our Stories” and “Native Truths.”

A Major Museum’s Attempt to Center Native American Voices

A person wearing a blue-and-white-striped headwrap wades calf-deep in water, bending over to harvest long, woody crops planted in rows.

How Can Societies Decolonize Conservation?

Peeling Back the Myth of a “White” Midwest

A crowd of people with blurred faces walk in the same direction wearing coats and hats.

Athletics, IQ, Health: Three Myths of Race

A mosaic of human faces represent different human races.

Are We So Different?

A large crowd of protestors fills a plaza and the surrounding streets at night. An enormous red and white flag floats over some of the participants.

“The State” Is a Story We Tell Ourselves

A person crying behind bars and both of their hands reach through the bars. One hand is cupped and the other rests inside of it in a fist to say “help” in American Sign Language.

Deaf and Incarcerated in the U.S.

Anti-Asian Racism’s Deep Roots in the United States

Artist Peter Williams explores Afrofuturist themes in this painting titled “He Was a Global Traveler.”

Do Black Lives Matter in Outer Space?

When Colorblind Parenting Meets Anti-racism

A lidar scan of a site in Mexico reveals the boundaries of a ceremonial area.

Why the Earth Must Be Mapped

Public parking spaces in Seattle have become crowded with resident campers who have few other options.

Without Parking, Those Who Live in Vehicles Have Nowhere to Go

gun research ban - Shoes representing the estimated 7,000 U.S. children who were killed by gun violence since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting cover the Capitol lawn in 2018.

Gun Violence Harms, Even if You’ve Never Been Shot

How Some Tried—and Failed—to Kill “Race” in Latin America

Modern Slavery

The Very Modern Problem of Human Slavery

The Illusion and Peril of Food “Choice”