The Institute for Critical Anthropology was established at the New School with a grant from the Menil Fund as a non-profit research center to fund publication of the journal, Dialectical Anthropology, and to advance the mission of "emancipatory anthropology," in which the field of anthropology would actively confront contemporary social and cultural problems, supporting research on ethnocide, genocide, and ethnogenesis. Includes founding and administrative materials, as well as several papers submitted by students in a 1985 essay contest.