The second event in a three-part symposium series, this panel brings together three ethnographers to examine the formation, limits, and circulation of whiteness—alongside the widening wealth disparities, authoritarian regimes, and masculinist cultures that sustain it. The series also highlights ethnography as both method and practice, an imaginative approach that illuminates the creative practices of solidarity, resistance, and political mobilization unfolding on the ground.
Speakers:
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús Olden Street Professor American Studies, Chair of the Effron Center for the Study of America, Princeton University; co-editor of the Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader (2025)
Elana Resnick Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California – Santa Barbara; author of Refusing Sustainability: Race and Environmentalism in a Changing Europe (2025)
Maya Wind University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Black Study, University of California – Riverside; author of Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (2024)