Black people sometimes discuss entertainers who matter to us in terms of whether they matter to people outside the community: “Is this
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It is Saturday morning, and I’m on my slightly-worse-for-the-wear deck. This morning I have my coffee (Peet’s Major Dickason’s Blend), a Food
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Social and cultural anthropologists understand how the culture of a society is changed. A dominant civilization or society most effectively changes a
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In the soupiness of late July, the air – heavily scented with coconut, diesel fuel, lingering hints of fried chicken, and undertones
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It is Monday and I’m on the Statehouse grounds in Columbia. It is dark, late, and my wife and I are walking
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When Andrew Smith said, “People fear what they don’t understand and hate what they can’t conquer,” he was laying out the blueprint
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