Anthony Jerry

Anthony R. Jerry is an associate professor of Anthropology and Black Study at the University of California Riverside. His academic research focuses on blackness, racial value, and citizenship in Latin America, Mexico, and the US Southwest. He is the Founder and Director of The Empathy Archive, a digital education platform focused on increasing Racial Literacy and Social and Emotional Learning Competencies in the US. He is also the CEO of Query, Qualitative Research Consulting, LLC. His book, Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica (2023, University Press of Florida, 2023) delves into the ongoing movement toward Black Mexican Recognition.