Kamala Harris’ Refusal of the One-Drop Rule
Vice President Harris’ views on her identity are pushing the U.S. public to look beyond entrenched, problematic racial boundaries.
Yolanda Moses
Yolanda Moses is a professor of anthropology and a former associate vice chancellor for diversity, equity, and excellence at the University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on the broad question of the origins of social inequality in complex societies. Moses has explored gender and class disparities in the Caribbean, East Africa, and the United States. More recently, her research has focused on issues of diversity and change in universities and colleges in the United States, India, Europe, and South Africa. She has co-authored two books about race: Race: Are We So Different? (with Alan Goodman and Joseph Jones) and How Real Is Race?: A Sourcebook on Race, Culture, and Biology (with Carol Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary Henze). In 2017, she received a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural Competence at the University of Sydney in Australia. Moses is a former president of the American Anthropological Association.
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The Shameful Persistence of White Supremacy in the United States
This loathsome worldview continues to have an outsize impact on U.S. culture. Can Black Lives Matter and other progressive movements do anything about it?
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Why Do We Keep Using the Word “Caucasian”?
When a term signifies something that does not exist, we need to examine our use of it.
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Is the Term “People of Color” Acceptable in This Day and Age?
The words we use to describe groups of people say a lot about what we’re grappling with as a society.
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Racial Realities
How can biological race not be real, but continue to have real consequences, every day, for all of us? Race is an idea invented by people.
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Why We Must Talk About Race
An anthropologist from urban Los Angeles looks at how science, history, religion, power, and politics colluded to create the illusion of race.