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September 25th, 2011
thesmithian
Ethnicity is a somewhat problematic word. The great American anthropologist and poet, Stanley Diamond, used such words as ethnic with complete and disarming respect, unlike most of us. Our use tends to be colored by guilt, condescension, or just awkwardness because this word and others in its category have suffered from cultural and racial politics and the politics of scholarship.
Chinua Achebe, on “Literature and Ethnicity.”
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