An anthropologist asks whether U.S. police are people serving the people—or are anonymous drones of state violence.

An interview with anthropologist Laurence Ralph, who wrote The Torture Letters, reveals how legacies of anti-black racism connect to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus pandemic is unequally affecting minority communities in the U.K. and the U.S. Racism, not race, explains the disparity.

For over 300 years, socially defined notions of “race” have shaped human lives around the globe—but the category has no biological foundation.

The famous anthropologist argued that non-Western cultures offered alternative, often better, ways to be human. Why was she so vilified for it?

In Gods of the Upper Air, a biographer reveals how anthropologist Franz Boas and his students helped transform how human differences and similarities are perceived.

The use of genetic testing to demonstrate degrees of mixture in Latin American populations has had perverse consequences that are also potentially dangerous.

A desire for lighter skin tones is deeply entrenched in many parts of the world, but it comes with equally deep risks to health and society.

Upon the death of her friend and childhood nanny in Cuba, an anthropologist reflects on the gifts exchanged over decades of reunion amid cultural and economic changes on the island.

Anthropologists and other scholars are delving into the plight of urban communities where people struggle to meet their nutritional needs. In the process, these researchers are discovering the power—and limits—of self-reliance.