And I’m wondering: does a non-white (non-American) anthropologist dressed in classic New England WASP attire count as wearing ‘ethnic wear’? Yes, the term was placed in care quotes, but how much was it unpacked, including in relation to Peggy McIntosh’s unpacking the knapsack of White privilege, that interrogates the question of ongoing colonial legacies and hierarchies in anthropology and how they affect who is and isn’t seen as a Real Anthropologist, whose fashion is seen as worth thinking (critically) about (also guess that job committees aren’t going to look favorably on a candidate who decides to wear the ‘ethic wear/flair’ of his/her urban Black working-class field site to the meetings, or that many other anthropologists would respond favorably either… ), and who is assumed–by other anthropologists!–to be ‘the help’ just there to refill the coffee.

Yes, glad that anthropology is such a committed antiracist space.