Hamites, Nilotes, and True Negroes: Charles Seligman, Africa, and the Racist Roots of Anthropology

Speaker
Jemima Pierre - Professor, UCLA, Department of African American Studies, Department of Anthropology,
Date
Mon May 22nd 2023, 3:30 - 5:00pm
Event Sponsor
Department of Anthropology
Location
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room) & Zoom

This presentation takes as a point of departure Charles G. Seligman’s The Races of Africa (1930) to both explore the early history of anthropology’s race-making practices through Africa and African peoples, and to reflect on their long term epistemological and theoretical legacies.

This is a hybrid event. For Zoom information, please contact pdios54 [at] stanford.edu (pdios54[at]stanford[dot]edu).