Alejandro Cerón traces 15 years of Guatemalan Indigenous and Mestizo communities demanding answers about water contamination and illness. The obscure responses they received from agribusinesses make clear whose health is valued, and whose is rendered invisible. #ABAxTA_NOLA

Erin Mellett’s work reveals how “healthcare that prioritizes efficiency over accessibility puts deaf immigrants at risk—through misdiagnoses, incorrect medications, and life-threatening language barriers.” #ABAxTA_NOLA

“Tools of white supremacy are meant to obscure, and part of the work is undoing that obscurity” -Laurence Ralph

“Grounding the intellectual history of anti-racist scholarship in anthropology is important. This isn’t just something of the new decade but rather has been put together by generations of Black anthropologists” -Faye Harrison

“We need to understand how we learn about one another because often formal schooling doesn’t teach us about the African diaspora.” -Dr. Nigel Escalada #ABAxTA_NOLA

N Fadeke Castor honor Dr. Omotayo Jolaosho, who passed away in 2022, in her citational practice: “Breath is a powerful material and spiritual force, a point of not only harm but also recovery.” #ABAxTA_NOLA

Courtney Desiree Morris reflects on how she hopes the book will shift pedagogical practice, “I hope the book can open up how we actually prepare students to go into the field which is often structured by profound violence” #ABAxTA_NOLA

A love letter from Dana-Ain Davis to all of the book contributors, “Your work has created space for scholarship that refuses easy capture, and recognizes anthropology’s potential as a radical practice of solidarity.” #ABAxTA_NOLA

“Fugitive Anthropology is a call to address a major blind spot to our training to address those gendered and racialized vulnerabilities experienced in the field…” - Shanya Cordis

Our cover features a sculptural work, ’25 Days,’ by Indo-South African artist Zenaéca Singh. The sculpture, made from sugar, activates the archive of indentured Indo-South African labour and migration and encapsulates the theme of this special issue.

You can start reading our special issue here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tra/curr...

We’ve also put together a shortened program with ABA-sponsored sessions and events of interest to ABA members to make your conference experience the best one yet. Follow us on IG (@transformanthro) to view the program!

Reviewed by Bailey A. Brown, Aggarwal’s ethnography will be an important resource for students and scholars of education policy, the anthropology of education, and the production of place.

Read Brown’s full review in our issue here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Focusing on the Detroit Food Map project and site-specific performances, Stovall and Hill highlight the agency Detroiters enact through their food-provisioning decisions.

Read the full article here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...