Anthropology Colloquium Spring Series

Great Anthropologists Who Fought Fascism: A Forgotten Chapter In The History Of Anthropology, presented by Alex Golub, Anthropology Associate Professor. While many rightly focus on anthropology's collaboration with state authority, in fact there is a long history of anti-fascism and anti-racism in American anthropology that is far larger than the well-known stories of Franz Boas's fight against scientific racism. This talk will describe how anthropologists fought fascism, struggled against the political repression of J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy, and were prominent in protests against the Vietnam war. In it, professor Golub will tell the interconnected stories of anthropologists such as Eric Wolf, Allison Davis, Archie Phinney, and explain how they serve as role models for everyone committed to the freedom to teach and learn, the value of dissent, and education as a civil right. Dr. Alex Golub is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He is the author of the articles 'Welcoming the New Amateurs: A Future (and Past) for Non-Academic Anthropologists' and 'From Allegiance to Connection: Structural Injustice, Scholarly Norms, and the Anthropological Ethics of Mining Encounters.' He is currently writing a biography of the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins.

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Anthropology, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Marti Kerton, 808-956-7153, anthprog@hawaii.edu, http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu, 2025 April Colloquium (PDF)

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