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Lawrence Richardson Distinguished Professor of Cultural Anthropology
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Scholarly Works - Digital art


"Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America"

Digital art · May 16, 2016 Featured Publication Cite

Zombies Are Real: The Haitian and American Realities Behind the Myth

Digital art · March 23, 2016 Short, non-fiction film for the Center for African and African American Research at Duke University documents the Haitian origins and the US American transformation of the concept of the zombie. Zombies are real. In Haiti, zonbi (the term in Haitian Kwey ... Link to item Cite

Lucumi Music: Dancing, Singing, and Drumming Black Divinity

Digital art · March 5, 2015 The orichas and the foddunes of Cuba and its diaspora come alive through music and dance. This film documents a 2014 conference of the Center for African and African American Research at Duke University about the diverse genres of Afro-Cuban sacred drummin ... Link to item Cite

Zombies Are Real

Digital art · 2015 Link to item Cite

A conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Digital art · January 14, 2014 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. In 2003 her debut novel "Purple Hibiscus" was released and since then she has written and published another three books, the latest being "Americanah". She had her great breakthrough 30 years old with h ... Link to item Cite

Global Affirmative Action in a Neoliberal Age

Digital art · October 7, 2013 In a half-dozen countries around the world, affirmative action and its counterparts have been prompted by diverse circumstances, taken diverse forms,encountered diverse forms of resistance, and had diverse outcomes. While its implementation is increasingly ... Link to item Cite

Human Traffic Past And Present 1

Digital art · August 17, 2012 An international group of social scientists, historians, artists and activists met to discuss the global phenomenon of human trafficking which is often referred to as "modern-day-slavery." This conference tells of the stories of the people who have been ma ... Link to item Cite