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Anthropology and the racial politics of culture

2011; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 48; Issue: 06 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.48-3356

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Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture

Questions"Are you a hegro?I a hegro too. . . .Are you a hegro?"My mother loves to recount the story of how, as a three year old, I used this innocent, mispronounced question to interrogate the garbagemen as I furiously raced my Big Wheel up and down the driveway of our rather large house on Park Avenue, a beautiful tree-lined street in an all-white neighborhood in Yakima, Washington.It was 1969.The Vietnam War was raging in Southeast Asia, and the brutal murders of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, and Bobby and