North American Dialogue
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Wiley (GB) |
| ISSN | 1539-2546 / 1556-4819 |
| Wikidata | Q63871861 |
| OpenAlex | S11778488 |
| MAG | 11778488 |
| Website | https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/24755389 |
| Total publications | 133 |
| Coverage period | 1996 - 2017 |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 18 |
| Impact factor | 0.5 |
| h-index | 2 |
North American Dialogue is the journal of the Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA), a section of the American Anthropological Association. It is a core social/cultural anthropology venue
Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Canadian Identity and History · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Critical Race Theory in Education · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies · Educational Robotics and Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions
A Risky Place? Media and the Health Landscape in the (In)secure U.S.‐Mexico Borderlands
In this paper, we consider how news stories about one area of the U.S.‐Mexico borderlands, the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, further propagate notions of a region filled with people characterized as dangerously noncompliant with American ideals of citizenship, prosperity, and security. Using Ethnographic Content Analysis, we conducted a systematic analysis of Valley, state and national mainstream news media stories from 2010–2016 about health…
New Directions, Continued Dialogues
Solitude in NYC
My Profession Chose Me
Extensive literature on care work or domestic work - childcare, eldercare, and housecleaning - in the United States and internationally has highlighted how the sector's affective aspects, e.g., intimacy, personalism, and fictive kin relationships, extract "surplus emotional labor" (Hochschild 1983) from women workers, who, in turn, often justify their caregiving labor through expressions of sentiment and kin obligation. In this article, I draw on…
Fictions of Prevention
This article starts with a question: what sociopolitical and/or sociocultural factors are flattened in prevention narratives? Focusing on the case of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder ( FASD ) and drawing on narratives and practices that argue FASD is 100% preventable—this article argues these fictions of prevention strip the very context within which a particular medical phenomenon is occurring. Focusing on legislation in Alaska and proposed amend…
“We Define Ourselves”
This article examines the construction of 21st‐century language and identities in an era of global displacement and social media when increasing numbers of youth are growing up undocumented. Building on prior research on anti‐immigrant rhetoric, it is based on participant observation, interviews, and document analysis conducted with Latin@ activists in California (1999–2001) and Illinois (2010–2014). Language has been central to the U.S. undocume…
Activism After Daca
Scholars of unauthorized migration have generally agreed that a lack of legal status can constrain undocumented workers’ resistance to their marginalization and exploitative treatment. Yet in recent years, undocumented workers and youth have been at the forefront of immigrant rights mobilizations and have organized around their status as undocumented people. In this article, we explore how the conferral of a conditional immigration status has aff…
Blackness in Post‐Bankruptcy Detroit
Public discourse narrative positions Detroit's post‐bankruptcy revitalization as a rapid process of business and investment descending upon the city. In spite of this narrative, Detroit today remains a city of intense poverty and inequality. Between 2009 and 2013, an estimated 39 percent of Detroit residents were living below the Federal Poverty Line. This figure renders Detroit as statistically the poorest city in the country. In addition to a m…
Politics of Motion
“I'm Stuck”
This study utilizes anthropological analyses of kinship, care, gendered inequalities, and the state to examine how social networks affect women's substance use in a rural Appalachian county where the primary drug of choice is prescription opioids. Of 503 participants from a larger study of social networks among rural drug users, 16 women who reported using drugs with four or more other study participants (drug network members) were interviewed fr…
Contesting Structural Vulnerability through Reproductive Justice Activism with Latina Immigrants in California
Latina migrant women in California in the post 9/11 era experience structural vulnerability that extends beyond their undocumented status, residence in poor neighborhoods with gangs, employment in informal sector jobs to their reproductive bodies. Although unauthorized women may access prenatal health, often they are intimidated or are unaware, and face many barriers to accessing reproductive health related to language, transportation, or their l…
The Pulse Nightclub Shooting
The shooting that left 49 people dead and 53 people injured at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida shined an international spotlight on the violent oppression of LGBTQ + people. The significant loss of human life, the complex intersections of identity, and the horrific details of the crime brought numerous issues affecting the lives of LGBTQ + people into public discourse. This essay contextualizes the narratives surrounding Pulse with a poli…
Not One More
This article analyzes the recent development of an anti‐deportation movement with distinct strategies and tactics that distinguish it from previous immigrant rights activism centered on immigration reform. We study the strategies and tactics of the anti‐deportation movement, focusing on the strategies of non‐staged civil disobediences and anti‐deportation campaigns. We argue that the specific tactics used in these alternative strategies a) depart…
Apocalyptic Diversity, Demonic Anthropology, and the Evangelical Ēthnos
How do American Charismatic Evangelicals imagine human difference? Ethnographic fieldwork with the Vineyard, a Southern California originated but now nation‐wide Charismatic Evangelical movement, suggests that for many lay American Charismatic Evangelicals, difference is conceptualized in three different modes, involving potentialities, relations, and boundedness. Much like a grammar shapes communication without imposing a single meaning, these f…
PaulDurrenberger. American Fieldnotes
SarahHautzinger and JeanScandlyn. Beyond Post‐Traumatic Stress
The Fire This Time
Uncertain Lives
This paper examines the practice of living in weekly rental residences among low-wage, tourist industry workers in Gatlinburg, considering how personal understandings of “home” interface with aneoliberal “flexible” labor system. While this is a critique of mass tourism in Gatlinburg, I want to emphasize that the working and living conditions described here are not unique. Across the U.S.neoliberal restructuring of the wage labor system leaves wor…
Compound Communities
My Father's Wars
MerrillSinger and J. BryanPage. The Social Value of Drug Addicts
BiHInSolidarity / B e I n S olidarity
To Protect and Serve Whiteness
Critics of policing often utter the phrase ‘to protect and serve,’ in order to point out the gap between discourses of ethical policing and practices of punitive policing in black communities. However, the present analysis asserts that a more appropriate representation of the policing function is ‘to protect and serve whiteness .’ Drawing ethnographic observations, the Ferguson Report and Officer Darren Wilson’s Grand Jury Testimony, I shift the …
Institutional Racism, Numbers Management, and Zero‐Tolerance Policing in N ew Y ork City
Institutional racism is a concept that has gotten into a muddle. Ubiquitous in policing in the UK, but relegated to the margins of discussion in the US, this important and useful idea has been misunderstood on both sides of the Atlantic as a pervasive form of unconscious or cultural bias. This article argues that a clearer distinction is needed between cognitive bias and institutional racism especially with regard to the racial disparities in the…
Immigration Policing and Medical Care for Farmworkers
Report from the Field
The US military's creation and deployment of “Human Terrain Teams” and the use of anthropology as a weapon in counterinsurgency operations bears a disturbing similarity to militarized forms of medicine and biotechnology currently in development for US military personnel. Through the mobilization and instrumentalization of health, the US military intends to manipulate the bodies of soldiers while claiming that this manipulation is to protect the w…
Promises of Place
My Profession Chose Me
Extensive literature on care work or domestic work - childcare, eldercare, and housecleaning - in the United States and internationally has highlighted how the sector's affective aspects, e.g., intimacy, personalism, and fictive kin relationships, extract "surplus emotional labor" (Hochschild 1983) from women workers, who, in turn, often justify their caregiving labor through expressions of sentiment and kin obligation. In this article, I draw on…
Opportunity and Danger
Indigenous Beach Vendors in P uerto V allarta and A capulco, M exico
Some New Directions in Anthropology “At Home”
The Other” and “The Enemy”
This paper is a reflection on doing anthropology in the United States, based on my research of the Grand Staircase‐Escalante National Monument, a “protected area” in southern Utah. My research focuses on the meaning and practice of democracy in the United States by examining the impact of conservation policies on rural resource users. I question why social scientists who study conservation are able to see injustices in the protected area model wh…
Anthropology Off the Shelf
The Henry A. Murray Research Center
Anthropology and American Colonialism
Communicating Beyond the Soundbite
Coalition Building in Brooklyn
Letting Boundaries Fly
Doing Research Without a Safety Net
Lessons in Love, Sorrow and Rage
Research Report
Working Conference on the Anthropology of Los Angeles
From Ellis Island To JFK
Report from the Field
Student Forum
The Ties That Bind
Stories of Accountability
Anthropologists Confront Global Injustice at First Sana Meetings
Pathologies of Power
It Happened in Halifax
Founding Myths of Monterrey
Graduate Student Report
Report from the Field
Mexico Turns South for its Future
The Production of Race, Culture and State
Across very wide regions of the world, small communities are experiencing a massively destructive encounter with both economic and state‐orchestrated pressures. The contradictions of citizenship in modem 'democratic" states results in the precipitous current decline of rural villages. The Newfoundland example illustrates what happens under deteriorating terms of trade: a marked differentiation in standards of living, and the export of people. As …
Against Culture
In a small Tlingit village in 1992, newly converted members of an all‐native church started a bonfire of "non‐Christian" items, including, reportedly, native dancing regalia. The burnings recalled an earlier century in which church converts in the same village burned totem poles. This book traces the years leading up to the most recent burnings and reveals the multiple strands of social tension defining Tlingit and Haida life in Southeast Alaska …
Report from the Field
Through participation in grassroots education workshops, conferences, and economic solidarity work, the author explores the expected impact of Plan Puebla de Panama on indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico, as well as North‐South resistance to militarization and neoliberal maldevelopment
Report From the Field