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(Re)Writing Anthropology and Raising Our Voices from the Academic Margins
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In reframing the ontological limits and possibilities of the academic margin, this Colloquy situates the Minority Serving Institution (MSI) classroom as a critical (field) site in which anthropological knowledge is innovated, produced, and contested. The essays, written by anthropologists who work in and represent “non-hegemonic” institutions, speak to decolonial, Black feminist, and liberatory projects and pedagogy that challenge what anthropology can look like, how anthropology can be practiced, how it can be taught, and what it can contribute to a more just world. This collection crafts a vision for an equitable anthropology of the now and the future and situates the academic margins as an important space from which the discipline must be reimagined in the current political moment.
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This Colloquy introduction argues that Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and their classrooms should be treated as a critical field site from which anthropology can be rewritten, not merely as a site of exclusion. It frames the MSI academic margin as a productive, empowering space for decolonial, Black feminist, and liberatory pedagogy.
Key findings
The essay is a framing introduction rather than an empirical study, so its claims are programmatic. It reports that HBCUs represent just 3 percent of all colleges and universities but enroll 11 percent of African American students; TCUs represent less than 1 percent of institutions but enroll 9 percent of Native American students; HSIs represent only 4 percent of tertiary institutions but enroll 50 percent of all Latino students; and AANAPISIs represent less than 1 percent of institutions but enroll 20 percent of all Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. It also notes that 98 percent of African Americans and Native Americans attending HBCUs or TCUs qualify for federal need-based aid, and that more than half of all students at MSIs receive Pell Grants versus 31 percent of all college students. It argues anthropology "continues to exist as a white public space" despite progress toward racial inclusion.
Methods
This is a Colloquy introduction synthesizing four contributed essays (Jenks on archival practice; McKinson on auto-ethnography and photovoice; Williams on citation praxis at an HBCU; Trinch, Cassidy, Suazo, and Mallol Nunez on the *Seeing Rape* theater project). The essays originated from a roundtable during the AAA's 2020 Raising Our Voices virtual series featuring anthropologists at four-year MSIs designated as AANAPISIs, HBCUs, and HSIs. The introduction draws on cited scholarship (Harrison, Crenshaw, Tsing, Lamphere, Dominguez, hooks) and MSI enrollment statistics to frame the collection.
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The paper states that essays showcasing two-year (community college) institutions and four-year Alaska Native-Serving Institutions, Native American-Serving Non-Tribal Institutions, Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions, PBIs, and TCUs are absent from the collection, though these institutions "undoubtedly also sit at the academic margins" and face a "double marginalization." Evident from the text: the introduction offers no original empirical data of its own, relying on cited statistics and the contributed essays, and its claims about pedagogical transformation are asserted rather than tested.
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- Premisecitation§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
The discipline of anthropology, at the undergraduate, doctoral, and professional levels, continues to exist as a white public space.
“the discipline-at the undergraduate, doctoral, and professional levels-continues to exist as a white public space (Brodkin, Morgan, and Hutchinson 2011)”
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- Premisenone given§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
MSIs provide intellectual homes for many low-income students whose lives intersect with deep histories of racism and poverty.
“These institutions also provide intellectual homes for many low-income students whose lives intersect with deep histories of racism and poverty.”
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A significant number of anthropologists have theorized the positionality of the margins in relation to state power.
“A significant number of anthropologists have theorized the positionality of the margins in relation to state power (Das and Poole 2004).”
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- Interpretationcitation§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
The margin has the potential to disrupt and transform the oppressive social categories that operate as intersecting systems of power.
“we must also recognize the margin for its potential to disrupt and transform the oppressive social categories that operate as intersecting systems of power (Crenshaw 1991)”
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- Premisecitation§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
MSIs enroll a significant number of students for whom higher education might otherwise have remained a foreclosed dream.
“Put simply, MSIs enroll a significant number of students for whom higher education might otherwise have remained a foreclosed dream (Gasman and Conrad 2013).”
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- Premisecitation§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd in 2020 and the global protests that followed, many anthropologists called for a confrontation of the discipline's participation in epistemic violence and a shift in practice.
“In the wake of these events, many anthropologists called for a confrontation of the discipline's participation in epistemic violence and a shift in practice (McKinson 2020).”
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- Premisecitation§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
98 percent of African Americans and Native Americans who attend HBCUs or TCUs qualify for federal need-based aid.
“Notably, 98 percent of African Americans and Native Americans who attend HBCUs or TCUs qualify for federal need-based aid.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYThe post-George Floyd world demands a willingness to seriously look to the MSI classroom as a space generative of the critical anthropological pedagogy and knowledge that the present moment demands.
“The authors fundamentally recognize that the post-George Floyd world that we now inhabit demands a willingness to seriously look to the MSI classroom as a space generative of the critical anthropological pedagogy and knowledge that the present moment demands.”
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Interpretationnone given§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYAnthropologists have neglected to come to terms with the reinscription of the center/margin dichotomy at home, in the universities and colleges where academic anthropologists write anthropology and teach and learn it with their students; this neglect is a noteworthy blind spot and disciplinary zone of discomfort.
“The failure of anthropologists to effectively consider the institutional and pedagogical operationalization of the margin within the center represents a noteworthy blind spot and disciplinary zone of discomfort.”
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“anthropologists have neglected to come to terms with the reinscription of the center/margin dichotomy at home, specifically, at the very places-universities and collegeswhere academic anthropologists write anthropology and where, with their students, they perform the sacred and foundational acts of teaching and learning anthropology.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYThe innovative pedagogical strategies presented in the essays have the potential to disrupt the hegemony of cultural anthropology and to be put into practice across anthropology's subfields.
“we must understand their interventions more broadly, that is, in relation to the potential for these innovative pedagogical strategies to disrupt the hegemony of cultural anthropology and be put into practice across anthropology's subfields.”
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Premisecitation§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYAnthropologists have written about the politics of doing ethnography at the margins.
“Anthropologists have written about the politics of doing ethnography at the margins (Herzfeld 1987;Bošković 2008).”
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Interpretationreasoning§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYThe essays illuminate the need for greater recognition of and scholarly engagement with a number of minority-serving institutions that face a double marginalization, being marginalized both within the larger academic sphere and within conversations about MSIs.
“these essays, even as they highlight critical voices from the academic margins, also illuminate the need for greater recognition of and scholarly engagement with an important number of minority-serving institutions that reside at the academic margins-yet face a double marginalization.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYThe MSI academic margin constitutes a productive space from which to rewrite anthropology.
“The essays demonstrate that the MSI academic margin in fact constitutes a productive space from which to rewrite anthropology.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYThe margin is not just a site of exclusion but also one of empowerment.
“Such a reading highlights the margin as not just a site of exclusion but also as one of empowerment.”
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Premisecitation§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYThe margin is an analytical placement that makes evident both the constraining, oppressive quality of cultural exclusion and the creative potential of rearticulating, enlivening, and rearranging the very social categories that peripheralize a group's existence.
“the constraining, oppressive quality of cultural exclusion and the creative potential of rearticulating, enlivening, and rearranging the very social categories that peripheralize a group's existence”
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Interpretationreasoning§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYAnthropology is always plural and fractured, despite historical tendencies to suggest otherwise.
“Such a philosophy highlights anthropology as always plural and fractured-despite historical tendencies to suggest otherwise.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYAnthropologists who work at MSIs have a unique opportunity to expose minority students to the discipline and offer them a critical anthropological lens through which to understand their own experiences and the world around them.
“anthropologists who work at MSIs have a unique opportunity to expose minority students to the discipline and offer to them a critical anthropological lens through which to understand their own experiences, as well as the world around them.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYAnthropology is always in the process of becoming.
“Such a reorientation recognizes anthropology as always in the process of becoming.”
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Premisecitation§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYScholars have sought to shed light on the marginalization and contributions of minority and women scholars in the discipline of anthropology.
“Scholars have also sought to shed light on the marginalization and contributions of minority and women scholars in the discipline (Harrison and Harrison 1999;Harrison, Johnson-Simon, and Williams 2018;Lamphere 2004).”
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Premisenone given§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYHistorically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) represent just 3 percent of all colleges and universities in the United States but enroll 11 percent of African American students.
“while HBCUs represent just 3 percent of all colleges and universities, they enroll 11 percent of African American students”
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Premisereasoning§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYThe eight federally designated types of MSIs all provide tertiary education opportunities to primarily low-income and underrepresented students of color neglected by an American higher education system that has traditionally privileged Predominantly White Institutions.
“They all provide tertiary education opportunities to primarily low-income and underrepresented students of color neglected by an American higher education system that has traditionally privileged Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs).”
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Premisenone given§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYHispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) represent only 4 percent of tertiary institutions in the United States but enroll 50 percent of all Latino students.
“while HSIs represent only 4 percent of tertiary institutions, they enroll 50 percent of all Latino students”
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Premisecitation§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYMore than half of all students enrolled at MSIs receive Pell Grants, compared with only 31 percent of all college students.
“more than half of all students enrolled at MSIs receive Pell Grants, compared with only 31 percent of all college students (Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions 2014)”
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Premisenone given§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYTribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) represent less than 1 percent of higher education institutions in the United States but enroll 9 percent of Native American students.
“while TCUs represent less than 1 percent of higher education institutions, they enroll 9 percent of Native American students”
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Premisenone given§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYAsian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs) represent less than 1 percent of all colleges and universities in the United States but enroll 20 percent of all Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
“while AANAPISIs represent less than 1 percent of all colleges and universities, they enroll 20 percent of all Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders”
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Interpretationreasoning§ ANTHROPOLOGY AND RAISING OUR VOICES FROM THE ACADEMIC MARGINS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYRewriting anthropology from the academic margins is a political act rooted in pedagogical praxis that necessarily engages anthropology as an incomplete epistemological project and as unsettled terrain.
“It is a political act rooted in pedagogical praxis that necessarily engages anthropology as an incomplete epistemological project and as unsettled terrain.”
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In the United States, Minority Serving Institutions came into existence in response to historical inequities in minority access to higher education.
“In the United States, MSIs came into existence in response to historical inequities in minority access to higher education.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- McKinson, K.
- Affiliations
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- Corresponding author
- McKinson, Kimberley
- ORCID
- McKinson, Kimberley
- Venue
- Cultural Anthropology
- Publisher
- American Anthropological Association
- Published
- 2022-08-18
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 0886-7356 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-1360
- OpenAlex
- W4294957967
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1
- FWCI
- 1.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- Locations
- Cultural Anthropology (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
- Keywords
- minority-serving institutions, decolonial anthropology, anthropology pedagogy, anthropology of the present, critical pedagogy
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