John Hartigan

Research Interests

anthropology of science (comparative study of genomics research in the U.S. and Mexico); ethnography of race (theories, methods, and practice, with an attention to cultural articulations of whiteness); American culture (class and racial discourses, along with questions of cultural form in the U.S. public sphere).

Teaching Interests

Urban cultures; Science, Technology, and Race; Social theory; Current ethnography; Ethnicity in North America.

Current Fieldwork Project

Hartigan is developing a multisited ethnography of genetics projects involving race in the U.S. and Mexico.

Recent Publications

2005 Odd Tribes: Towards a Cultural Analysis of White People, Duke University Press.

2005 "Culture Against Race: Revamping Racial Analysis", South Atlantic Quarterly.

2005 "Whiteness and Appalachian Studies: What’s the Connection?", Journal of Appalachian Studies (10:1)

2003 "Who Are These White People? White Trash, Hillbillies, and Rednecks, as Marked Racial Subjects", in White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism, Ashley W. Doane & Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, editors, Routledge, pgs. 95-111.

2002 "The Difference between Whiteness and Whites", in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, 4:4 (59-63), Fall .

2002 "White Devils Talk Back: What Antiracists can Learn From Whites in Detroit", in The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness, Duke University Press, pgs. 138-166.

2000 Remembering White Detroit: Whiteness in the Mix of History and Memory, City & Society, 12(2): 11-34.

2000 Guest editor for Identities, special issue on whiteness in a cross-cultural perspective. Object Lessons in Whiteness: Ethnocentric Pitfalls of Anti-Racism in the United States.

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