Week 10: Repugnant others
ANTH 3623: Reconciling justice with anthropology (Semester 1,
2026)
May 4, 2026
Main reading: Rosa and Bonilla (2017); Rosa and Díaz (2020)
Other reading: da Silva and Larkins (2019)
Agenda for class
Poll on extra-time options for Week 13 presentations Go to https://menti.com and use code
6515 9337. Vote for one time that you could attend if your presentation was not during the Week 13 class.Discussion questions
- What is “dehumanization”? What causes dehumanization? What are the most important or significant kinds of dehumanization?
- If the nature of colonial domination is ontological, what does “equality” mean? Is equality a meaningful standard of justice if we accept Rosa and Diaz’s argument?
- What is anthropology’s contribution to the specific kinds of dehumanization we see now, or that we have identified as most important? Does anthropology need to change?
Writing workshop
- Sharing our progress; describing the writing process; identifying friction
- Discussing ways to make progress
- Making plans for next week
References
Rosa, Jonathan, and Yarimar Bonilla. 2017. “Deprovincializing
Trump, Decolonizing Diversity, and Unsettling Anthropology.”
American Ethnologist 44 (2): 201–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12468.
Rosa, Jonathan, and Vanessa Díaz. 2020. “Raciontologies:
Rethinking Anthropological Accounts of Institutional Racism and
Enactments of White Supremacy in the United States.” American
Anthropologist 122 (1): 120–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13353.
Silva, Antonio José Bacelar da, and Erika Robb Larkins. 2019. “The
Bolsonaro Election, Antiblackness, and Changing Race Relations in
Brazil.” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean
Anthropology 24 (4): 893–913. https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12438.