A blog highlighting new research on culture and society
Summer Sewell from The Guardian writes about the recent meeting between Black farmers and the U.S. House of Representatives agriculture committee to discuss long-standing racism and discrimination by the United States Department of Agriculture and the industry at large.
Latina farmworkers in southwestern Idaho experience isolation, fear of deportation, and stress compounded by gender disparities, according to new research in public health conducted by Drs. Lisa Melerotto, Rebecca L. Som Castellano, and Cynthia Curi at Boise State University.
A look at the ethnographic research conducted by Colorado State University Anthropology Professor, Dr. Katherine E. Browne, on the lengthy and costly recovery low-income communities faced along the Gulf Coast of the United States after Hurricane Katrina.