Elizabeth Chin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 88699 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elizabeth Chin |
| NOMBRES | Elizabeth |
| APELLIDO | Chin |
| FIRMA | CHIN E |
| AFILIACIONES | Occidental College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8486-6562 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 85 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Escribir en comunidad
As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and in coauthorship contexts. Here, we focus on peer-reviewed publication as the principal manifestation of …
Writing in community
As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and in coauthorship contexts. Here, we focus on peer-reviewed publication as the principal manifestation of …
Why I quit and why I stay
It's just a font
On special sections
Generous peer review
Revise and resubmit means just that. Revise. Resubmit
On deadlines
I don't bite
Speculating spiritual technologies
No abstract available
Publishing
A hubris of firsts
On publishing good work
I'm Not OK but I'm Doing the Best I Can and I Bet You're Not OK Either but I Believe You're Doing the Best You Can
They Have Stories
Let Us Become Pyrophytes (Fire-Lovers)
On the Possibility of Radical, Rigorous Generosity as an Editorial Ethos
Needlework
Exploring needlework as a mode of feminist ethnographic knowledge‐making, this reflexive and reflective piece focuses on the ways in which making Vodou flags serves to expand my own practice. In particular, how does needlework compel ways of thinking and feeling that exist beyond language? How do durational investments of time and work allow an expansion of ethnographic knowing
Shopping dreams
Scholars working in consumer culture studies have long recognized the significance of the imagination in directing consumption. Largely unconsidered in such studies, however, is nighttime dreaming, a state of consciousness in which consumers regularly engage with the meanings, materialities, identity projects, and objective structures associated with consumption. Synthesizing insights from the anthropology of dreaming with emerging models in the …
On Multimodal Anthropologies from the Space of Design
Commodity Racism
“Commodity racism” is a term that refers to the way in which race and commodities mutually inform one another. The concept was first proposed by McClintock , who argued that, from the late nineteenth century, racism encoded into commodities and their advertising campaigns was a key tool in the British project of colonization and empire. More broadly, commodity racism encompasses racist modes of the commodification of people – most importantly, sl…
There's More to Uganda
Additional informationNotes on contributorsElizabeth ChinElizabeth Chin joined the faculty of Art Center in 2011 as a founding member of the Media Design Practices/Field program. As an anthropologist her practice includes performative scholarship, experimental writing and collaborative ethnography. Her book Purchasing Power (Minnesota 2001) was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award. In 2007 she won the AAA/Oxford University Press Award for Exc…
Scriptive Things
Robin Bernstein. 2011. Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. New York: NY University Press
Michael Jackson's Panther Dance: Double Consciousness and the Uncanny Business of Performing While Black
Reflections on Race, the Body and Boundaries How to Get on the Bus
Drawing inspiration from the work of dancer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham, this paper explores strategies for teaching about both the experience of race and the ethnography of race. Focusing specifically on ways to encourage students to explore the embodiment of race as it intersects with politics of power, strategies to use both within and outside the classroom are explored. Methods emphasize both in-classroom strategies, and those that ta…
Ethnically Correct Dolls
The toy industry has touted ethnically correct dolls as a progressive solution to representation and inclusion in the toy box, and in children's lives. Ethnographic work with ten-year-old, poor and working-class black children in New Haven, Connecticut complicates these assertions. These children had very few ethnically correct dolls. Instead, girls had white dolls that they brought into their worlds through styling their hair in ways racially ma…
On Multimodal Anthropologies from the Space of Design
Children out of bounds in globalising times
(2003). Children out of bounds in globalising times. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 309-325
Let Us Become Pyrophytes (Fire-Lovers)
The Consumer Diaries, or, Autoethnography in the Inverted World
Using the form of an ethnographic diary, this article explores the complexity of contemporary consumer life as it is enmeshed with everyday experience. Built around three ethnographic diary entries that track the author's miscarriage, the article's aim is to insist on the humanity of consumption even as it poses profound problems. Scholars and scholarship are not exempt from suffering the very problems we seek to analyze. To further this point, t…
Figurations
On the Possibility of Radical, Rigorous Generosity as an Editorial Ethos
Katherine Dunham's Dance as Public Anthropology
Confessions of a Negrophile
A personal reflection on the difficulties of being an Asian American who works on and lives with Blackness, this article seeks to describe and explore my own experiences while also examining the ways in which contemporary U.S. culture as well as anthropology itself continues to construct Asian and Black as opposed and dichotomous
Writing in community
As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and in coauthorship contexts. Here, we focus on peer-reviewed publication as the principal manifestation of …
Commodity Racism
“Commodity racism” is a term that refers to the way in which race and commodities mutually inform one another. The concept was first proposed by McClintock , who argued that, from the late nineteenth century, racism encoded into commodities and their advertising campaigns was a key tool in the British project of colonization and empire. More broadly, commodity racism encompasses racist modes of the commodification of people – most importantly, sl…
There's More to Uganda
Additional informationNotes on contributorsElizabeth ChinElizabeth Chin joined the faculty of Art Center in 2011 as a founding member of the Media Design Practices/Field program. As an anthropologist her practice includes performative scholarship, experimental writing and collaborative ethnography. Her book Purchasing Power (Minnesota 2001) was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award. In 2007 she won the AAA/Oxford University Press Award for Exc…
Consumption, African Americans
The topic of African Americans and consumption is fundamentally engaged with slavery, US racial politics, social inequality, and Civil Rights activism. Central questions include the consumption of African Americans, and consumption by African Americans. Because much theory on consumption implicitly assumes a normative consumer who is white and middle class, consideration of African Americans and consumption has made important challenges to theori…
Shaping Society through Dance
Shaping Society through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes. Zoila S. Mendoza. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. ix. 285 pp., CD, illustrations, maps, photographs, notes, references, index
Escribir en comunidad
As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and in coauthorship contexts. Here, we focus on peer-reviewed publication as the principal manifestation of …
Why I quit and why I stay
A hubris of firsts
On publishing good work
I'm Not OK but I'm Doing the Best I Can and I Bet You're Not OK Either but I Believe You're Doing the Best You Can
They Have Stories
Shopping dreams
Scholars working in consumer culture studies have long recognized the significance of the imagination in directing consumption. Largely unconsidered in such studies, however, is nighttime dreaming, a state of consciousness in which consumers regularly engage with the meanings, materialities, identity projects, and objective structures associated with consumption. Synthesizing insights from the anthropology of dreaming with emerging models in the …
Ethnography and Human Development
Remembering Delmos Jones
Ethnically Correct Dolls
The toy industry has touted ethnically correct dolls as a progressive solution to representation and inclusion in the toy box, and in children's lives. Ethnographic work with ten-year-old, poor and working-class black children in New Haven, Connecticut complicates these assertions. These children had very few ethnically correct dolls. Instead, girls had white dolls that they brought into their worlds through styling their hair in ways racially ma…
Ballet across Borders
Ballet across Borders: Career and Culture in the World of Dancers. Helena Wulff. New York: Berg, 1998. 185 pp
Children out of bounds in globalising times
(2003). Children out of bounds in globalising times. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 309-325
Home Possessions
Shaping Society through Dance
Shaping Society through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes. Zoila S. Mendoza. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. ix. 285 pp., CD, illustrations, maps, photographs, notes, references, index
Action Research in the Classroom
Two large, cardboard cartons full of new dolls were delivered to Lucy Aslan's fifth grade classroom at the Lincoln School in New Haven, Connecticut, an unexpected gift from the nation's largest black-owned toy manufacturer, Olmec. Although the boxes remained unopened, the children's eyes strayed toward them often. Most of the 25 children were poor or working class, and all but Carlos were black; only two came from homes where both parents were re…
Figurations
Fostering a Community-Based Learning Culture
This article offers a case study in Community-Based Learning by describing a collaborative gang-intervention effort developed for children in Los Angeles. Project GOLD (Goal Oriented Life Decisions), is an educational-intervention effort designed by representatives from Occidental College, Garvanza Elementary School, the LAPD, and the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office and implemented in the elementary school. Both authors are directly involved w…
Society for the Anthropology of North America
Confessions of a Negrophile
A personal reflection on the difficulties of being an Asian American who works on and lives with Blackness, this article seeks to describe and explore my own experiences while also examining the ways in which contemporary U.S. culture as well as anthropology itself continues to construct Asian and Black as opposed and dichotomous
Association for Black Anthropologists
Vera Green Publication Award Sabiyha Prince
Association for Black Anthropologists
Race, Globalization and Hip Hop Culture Raymond Codrington
Association for Black Anthropologists
Transforming Anthropology Joins AnthroSource Family Lee Baker
Association for Black Anthropologists
Anthropology, the Community and Civil RightsWillie McKether
The Consumer Diaries, or, Autoethnography in the Inverted World
Using the form of an ethnographic diary, this article explores the complexity of contemporary consumer life as it is enmeshed with everyday experience. Built around three ethnographic diary entries that track the author's miscarriage, the article's aim is to insist on the humanity of consumption even as it poses profound problems. Scholars and scholarship are not exempt from suffering the very problems we seek to analyze. To further this point, t…
Consumption, African Americans
The topic of African Americans and consumption is fundamentally engaged with slavery, US racial politics, social inequality, and Civil Rights activism. Central questions include the consumption of African Americans, and consumption by African Americans. Because much theory on consumption implicitly assumes a normative consumer who is white and middle class, consideration of African Americans and consumption has made important challenges to theori…
Association of Black Anthropologists
ABA at the 2007 AAA Annual MeetingKimberly Simmons
Association for Black Anthropologists
An Update on Transforming Anthropology John Jackson, Deborah Thomas
Cultivating the Teaching Moment
Finding (and Losing) Family in Fieldwork
Katherine Dunham's Dance as Public Anthropology
Michael Jackson's Panther Dance: Double Consciousness and the Uncanny Business of Performing While Black
Reflections on Race, the Body and Boundaries How to Get on the Bus
Drawing inspiration from the work of dancer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham, this paper explores strategies for teaching about both the experience of race and the ethnography of race. Focusing specifically on ways to encourage students to explore the embodiment of race as it intersects with politics of power, strategies to use both within and outside the classroom are explored. Methods emphasize both in-classroom strategies, and those that ta…
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