Culture, Power, and Boundaries
The purpose of this seminar is to examine critically the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender and class in a variety of social settings where such groupings also become part of local and transnational power relationships. This represents an evolution of the seminar’s earlier emphasis on immigration. While the majority of seminar members are currently anthropologists, and presentations tend to focus on case studies, the seminar continues to welcome, as both guests and speakers, other social scientists interested in issues of social cleavages and state power. Recent topics have included discussion of indigenous mobilization in Mexico, the roles of ethnicity and gender in labor organizing, and the intersections of nationalism, ethnicity and class in the training at Georgia’s School of the Americas. Topics are considered historically as well as through the analysis of current trends and issues in social policy, in political economy and in the international division of labor.
Seminar: #531
Founded: 1971
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Seminar Administration
Co Chairs:
Kirk Dombrowski
Associate Professor
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
kdombrow@jjay.cuny.edu
Lesley Gill
American University, Department of Antropology
202-885-1833
lg32@columbia.edu
Rapporteur:
Ling-chih Kao
Columbia University
lk2301@columbia.edu
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