Anthropology and Black History Lesson Plan

Historically, anthropological textbooks have privileged the Euro-centric, White perspective, and have provided limited information on the experiences of the Black African Diaspora, Indigenous people, and those who identify as People of Color (POC). Indeed, many anthropology texts presented non-European groups as “the Other” — those who are fundamentally different from European-descended groups. Additionally, they also often failed to cite Black and Indigenous anthropologists as experts — ignoring the fact anthropologists, themselves, come from every community. The reason for this treatment of non-Europeans, and the omission of non-white anthropologists in the citations, can be traced back to anthropology’s contributions to the colonial endeavor in which the study, as well as the objectification, of non-Europeans, became the primary goal of much anthropological fieldwork and publication (Trouillot 2003). <a href="https://amanda-zunner-keating.medium.com/anthropology-and-black-history-lesson-plan-bd17aac057ba">Learn More</a>