Jemima Pierre is an anthropologist and Professor at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is the author of the award-winning The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race (Chicago, 2013). She is also Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Race, Gender and Class, University of Johannesburg. Jean Muteba Rahier is Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University, where he is the founding director of the Observatory of Justice for Afrodescendants in Latin America.

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• 1. Introduction: anthropology and the legacies of race Jemima Pierre and Jean Muteba Rahier; Part I. Anthropology and Race: Focus on Sub-Disciplines; 2. The fallacy and reality of race Yolanda T. Moses; 3. Physical anthropology and racial science Rachel Watkins; 4. The Boasian intervention: race, racism, and culture in the United States Mark Anderson; 5. Culturalism and the post-world war I ethnology of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean Kevin A. Yelvington; 6. Archaeology of the plantation complex in the Caribbean Justin Dunnavant; Part II. Race, Nation and Belonging; 7. Whiteness, indigeneity, blackness, and the polysemy of ethnoracial mixings in Latin American ideologies of national identity, from 'monocultural mestizaje' or 'racial democracy' to contemporary multiculturalism Jean Muteba Rahier; 8. Effacing blackness: race, colonialism, and nationalism in Cuba and Puerto Rico Jorge Duany; 9. Blackface, nationalism, and belonging in Argentina Judith M. Anderson; 10. Ancestry, color, and culture in Australia's gulf country David S. Trigger; 11. The politics of race and nationalism in contemporary China Shanshan Lan; Part III. Legacies of Privileged Racialization: 12. Feeling at home in Christian nationalism: sexuality and white evangelicalism in the United States Sophie Bjork-James; 13. Whiteness in the post-colony: survivals of the racially-ordered past Janet McIntosh; 14. Racialized travel writing on Kuwait Bader Alfarhan; 15. Race and racialization in assisted reproduction Daisy Deomampo; Part IV. New Directions in the Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity: 16. 'Racializing affect' revisited: endurance and transformation of a theoretical perspective Ulla Berg and Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas; 17. Universalizing race in the anthropocene: geosciences, progress and the human age Bruce Erickson; 18. F*ck the police!: antiblack statecraft, the myth of cops' fragility, and the fierce urgency of an insurgent anthropology of policing Jaime A. Alves; 19. Meaning and matter(ing): testifying to black life through raciosemiotics Krystal A. Smalls.

Jemima Pierre is an anthropologist and Professor at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is the author of the award-winning The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race (Chicago, 2013). She is also Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Race, Gender and Class, University of Johannesburg. Jean Muteba Rahier is Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University, where he is the founding director of the Observatory of Justice for Afrodescendants in Latin America.

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• 1. Introduction: anthropology and the legacies of race Jemima Pierre and Jean Muteba Rahier; Part I. Anthropology and Race: Focus on Sub-Disciplines; 2. The fallacy and reality of race Yolanda T. Moses; 3. Physical anthropology and racial science Rachel Watkins; 4. The Boasian intervention: race, racism, and culture in the United States Mark Anderson; 5. Culturalism and the post-world war I ethnology of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean Kevin A. Yelvington; 6. Archaeology of the plantation complex in the Caribbean Justin Dunnavant; Part II. Race, Nation and Belonging; 7. Whiteness, indigeneity, blackness, and the polysemy of ethnoracial mixings in Latin American ideologies of national identity, from 'monocultural mestizaje' or 'racial democracy' to contemporary multiculturalism Jean Muteba Rahier; 8. Effacing blackness: race, colonialism, and nationalism in Cuba and Puerto Rico Jorge Duany; 9. Blackface, nationalism, and belonging in Argentina Judith M. Anderson; 10. Ancestry, color, and culture in Australia's gulf country David S. Trigger; 11. The politics of race and nationalism in contemporary China Shanshan Lan; Part III. Legacies of Privileged Racialization: 12. Feeling at home in Christian nationalism: sexuality and white evangelicalism in the United States Sophie Bjork-James; 13. Whiteness in the post-colony: survivals of the racially-ordered past Janet McIntosh; 14. Racialized travel writing on Kuwait Bader Alfarhan; 15. Race and racialization in assisted reproduction Daisy Deomampo; Part IV. New Directions in the Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity: 16. 'Racializing affect' revisited: endurance and transformation of a theoretical perspective Ulla Berg and Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas; 17. Universalizing race in the anthropocene: geosciences, progress and the human age Bruce Erickson; 18. F*ck the police!: antiblack statecraft, the myth of cops' fragility, and the fierce urgency of an insurgent anthropology of policing Jaime A. Alves; 19. Meaning and matter(ing): testifying to black life through raciosemiotics Krystal A. Smalls.

Jemima Pierre is an anthropologist and Professor at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is the author of the award-winning The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race (Chicago, 2013). She is also Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Race, Gender and Class, University of Johannesburg. Jean Muteba Rahier is Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University, where he is the founding director of the Observatory of Justice for Afrodescendants in Latin America.

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• 1. Introduction: anthropology and the legacies of race Jemima Pierre and Jean Muteba Rahier; Part I. Anthropology and Race: Focus on Sub-Disciplines; 2. The fallacy and reality of race Yolanda T. Moses; 3. Physical anthropology and racial science Rachel Watkins; 4. The Boasian intervention: race, racism, and culture in the United States Mark Anderson; 5. Culturalism and the post-world war I ethnology of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean Kevin A. Yelvington; 6. Archaeology of the plantation complex in the Caribbean Justin Dunnavant; Part II. Race, Nation and Belonging; 7. Whiteness, indigeneity, blackness, and the polysemy of ethnoracial mixings in Latin American ideologies of national identity, from 'monocultural mestizaje' or 'racial democracy' to contemporary multiculturalism Jean Muteba Rahier; 8. Effacing blackness: race, colonialism, and nationalism in Cuba and Puerto Rico Jorge Duany; 9. Blackface, nationalism, and belonging in Argentina Judith M. Anderson; 10. Ancestry, color, and culture in Australia's gulf country David S. Trigger; 11. The politics of race and nationalism in contemporary China Shanshan Lan; Part III. Legacies of Privileged Racialization: 12. Feeling at home in Christian nationalism: sexuality and white evangelicalism in the United States Sophie Bjork-James; 13. Whiteness in the post-colony: survivals of the racially-ordered past Janet McIntosh; 14. Racialized travel writing on Kuwait Bader Alfarhan; 15. Race and racialization in assisted reproduction Daisy Deomampo; Part IV. New Directions in the Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity: 16. 'Racializing affect' revisited: endurance and transformation of a theoretical perspective Ulla Berg and Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas; 17. Universalizing race in the anthropocene: geosciences, progress and the human age Bruce Erickson; 18. F*ck the police!: antiblack statecraft, the myth of cops' fragility, and the fierce urgency of an insurgent anthropology of policing Jaime A. Alves; 19. Meaning and matter(ing): testifying to black life through raciosemiotics Krystal A. Smalls.