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I was also surprised by Gupta and Stoolman’s apparent assumption that — all? most? many? — anthropologists under their umbrella term BILPOC (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, People of Color) agree that white-norming is the fundamental problem facing anthropology. Updating terminology does not avoid the pitfalls of racial classification.
Even when the goal is to fight racism, racial classification always risks becoming fetish or mask for the local distribution of trust, of who belongs and who does not.
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Even when the goal is to fight racism, racial classification always risks becoming fetish or mask for the local distribution of trust, of who belongs and who does not.
read://https_www.chronicle.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chronicle.com%2Farticle%2Fdecolonizing-anthropology-or-racializing-it%3Fcid%3Dgen_sign_in