In Finding Afro-Mexico, Theodore Cohen examines the ways in which different protagonists sought to incorporate Blackness into Mexican national identity.

Dr. Badia Ahad-Legardy distinguishes Afro-Nostalgia as a framework to think about the relationship between affect, black historical memory, and joy.

In Kincraft, Todne Thomas takes a deep dive into the social and religious lives of two black evangelical churches in the Atlanta metro area.

Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing.

Dr. Danielle Fuentes Morgan examines the ways in which African American comedians and cultural producers took aim at claims of a “post-racial United States” through the lens of satire.

Dr. Ana-Maurine Lara examines the dominant modes of power that seek to suppress LGBTQ lives and identities as well as the ways in which these communities and individuals push back.

For six years, anthropologist and artist Maya Stovall enacted a series of dance performances outside of liquor stores in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood on Detroit’s east side.

In Black Lives and Spatial Matters, Dr. Jodi Rios examines relationships between blackness, space, and racism in the northern suburbs of St. Louis.

In Stuck With Tourism, Matilde Córdoba Azcárate reveals the processes of labor, extraction, and reorganization that make places such as Cancún a tourism site.

Anthropologist Vanessa Díaz examines the raced and gendered hierarchies and inequalities that are imbricated within the work of producing celebrity in Los Angeles.

Contingent Kinship offers an ethnography of adoption processes in the US through the inner workings of a private adoption agency in Chicago, IL.

In Food In Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal, Hanna Garth examines the processes of acquiring food and preparing meals in the midst of food shortages.

In Deadline, Robert Samet undertakes ethnography with crime journalists on their reporting practices to offer a compelling argument about the relationship between populist politics and the news.

Ivan V. Small moves beyond the numbers to examine how remittances affect sociality and human relations in his book Currencies of Imagination.

Ashanté M. Reese examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food.

In her book, Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race (NYU Press, 2019), Chinyere K. Osuji examines how interracial couples push against, navigate, and often maintain racial boundaries.