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Stigma and Culture - Last-Place Anxiety in Black America (Paperback)
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Stigma and Culture - Last-Place Anxiety in Black America (Paperback)
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series (CHUP)
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In Stigma and Culture, J. Lorand Matory provocatively shows how
ethnic identification in the United States-and around the globe-is
a competitive and hierarchical process in which populations,
especially of historically stigmatized races, seek status and
income by dishonoring other stigmatized populations. And there is
no better place to see this than among the African American elite
in academia, where he explores the emergent ethnic identities of
African and Caribbean immigrants and transmigrants,
Gullah/Geechees, Louisiana Creoles, and even Native Americans of
partly African ancestry. Matory describes the competitive process
that hierarchically structures their self-definition as ethnic
groups and the similar process by which middle-class African
Americans seek distinction from their impoverished compatriots.
Drawing on research at universities such as Howard, Harvard, and
Duke and among their alumni networks, he details how university
life-while facilitating individual upward mobility, touting human
equality, and regaling cultural diversity-also perpetuates the
cultural standards that historically justified the dominance of
some groups over others. Combining his ethnographic findings with
classic theoretical insights from Frantz Fanon, Fredrik Barth,
Erving Goffman, Pierre Bourdieu and others-alongside stories from
his own life in academia-Matory sketches the university as an
institution that, particularly through the anthropological
vocabulary of culture, encourages the stigmatized to stratify their
own.
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