The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall HC25 and acts of vandalism

and acts of vandalism

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Drawing on hitherto unpublished sources

The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall HC25 and acts of vandalismA critical examination of the complex legacies of early Californian anthropology and linguistics for twenty first century communities. In January 2021, at a time when many institutions were reevaluating fraught histories, the University of California removed anthropologist and linguist Alfred Kroebers name from a building on its Berkeley campus. Critics accused Kroeber of racist and dehumanizing practices that harmed Indigenous people; university