Brackette F. Williams is an American anthropologist, and Senior Justice Advocate, Open Society Institute.
She is currently an associate professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Arizona.
[4] [5][6] Her work has centered on the Caribbean region, and in particular, examined how racial and ethnic categories are reproduced in Guyana nationalism.
[7] Categories and classification systems - how they are developed, what basis they have in cultural contexts, and how they are put to use, by whom and for whom - have been a general theme in her work as well.
[8] Williams's ethnographic work on the categories informing capital punishment in the United States demonstrates has also been an interest.