The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

I hadn’t had many interactions with white people,” said Carter, now a senior majoring in anthropology and cell biology. “I Like the country itself, struggling to transition away from a straight, white, male-centered culture, campuses are laboring to find the best way to evolve. I wanted to work on that: How do I code switch?

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

David Sapir, a cultural and linguistic anthropologist, West Africanist, and scholar of folklore and ethnographic photography, died August 31, 2024, at the age of 91. After his father’s death in 1939 when he was 6, the family moved to Greenwich Village, New York City, where he attended public school PS 81.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In American public schools, disabled youth with significant support and academic needs are often educated in separate programs. Tricia Niesz is the section contributing editor for the Council on Anthropology and Education. The post Disabled Worlds of Care in Middle School Classrooms appeared first on Anthropology News.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In a divisive political climate, public schools are taking on the challenge of helping refugees who feel unsafe in a country that seems increasingly intolerant of them. They then moved north to the Lewiston-Auburn area, where housing is cheaper, said Elizabeth Eames, a Bates College associate professor of anthropology.

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