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Best of SAPIENS 2024

Sapiens

Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights and deeply reported concerns to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine. Human Rights Archived Haints By Alma Simba SAPIENS 2024 poet-in-residence conjures the voices of those imprisoned in archives.

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Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Zinn Education Project

You will hold regular (a minimum of five) meetings based on a collective reading of Teaching for Black Lives and a recent issue of Rethinking Schools magazine. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Human Rights Committee of 20 members formed a study group that is embedded into their regular monthly meetings.

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4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians

Studies Weekly

As the co-founder of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and editor and research director of the organization’s magazine, The Crisis, he published his opposition to the unequal treatment of Black Americans and promoted Black nationalism. Black community. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Museum 52
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Towards an Anthropological Praxis of User Data

Anthropology News

PC Magazine concisely defines user data as “any data a user creates or owns,” but this flaunts the crux of user data’s ethical quagmire: to what extent do any users own their data? It’s overwhelmingly companies, not end-users, who profit from the transaction of user data.

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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

ED Surge

describes in her 2015 book “The Making of Asian America: A History”[iii] that the model minority stereotype has roots in World War II and the Cold War, then was proliferated in the 1980s in newspapers and magazines. Asian Americans were often celebrated “for holding the formula for success” (p.

Heritage 101
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Member Spotlight: Dr. Cyril Ghosh, Clark University

Political Science Now

For example, I recently published a piece in the Journal of Human Rights interrogating current US policy on asylum for LGBTQ+ folks. The APSA Member Spotlight program features one member each quarter in the APSA Member Magazine, Political Science Today. Lately, I have also been involved in work on the interstices of the two.

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Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

Zinn Education Project

972 Magazine is an independent magazine run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists. Created in 2010 and housed at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the Costs of War project builds on the work of over 60 scholars, experts, human rights advocates, and physicians from around the world.