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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

These have included anthropology, philosophy, languages, art, theater, music and women’s and African American studies. Knowledge such as this “ties into everything — not just history, but our current state of racial issues, our current state of social justice and, beyond that, economics,” said one, Cherline Chery, when the lights came up. “It

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

As states forgo redistributive policy and embrace marketized economies that commodify education as the morally legitimized means of social mobility, scholars in anthropology and education have turned critical attention to pedagogies of aspiration. These schools often frame their efforts in social justice terms.

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Rafael Sánchez Cacheiro

Anthropology News

He obtained his formal education in Caracas, and then California, before moving to the University of Chicago to further his studies in anthropology, ultimately obtaining his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. Morris ) The post Rafael Sánchez Cacheiro appeared first on Anthropology News. Patricia Spyer and Rosalind C.