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Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage
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Piersen as mentioned in this paper examines a series of African and African-American oral narratives that interpret the experience of slavery from a distinctly black perspective, and analyzes the ways in which enslaved Africans adapted their rich cultural heritage to the new circumstances they were forced to endure.Citations
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Crossroads of Cultures: The Transnational Turn in American Studies--Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 12, 2004
TL;DR: Gloria Anzaldúa as mentioned in this paper saw the border between the United States and Mexico as "una herida abierta, where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds." She was unwilling to reject any part of herself to stop the contradictory voices that buzzed through her head.
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Establishing the fact of whiteness
TL;DR: The authors argue that whites benefit from a host of social arrangements and institutional operations that seem, to whites, to have no racial basis, and that whiteness is a powerful means of critiquing the reproduction and maintenance of systems of racial inequality.
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Interrogating Whiteness, Complicating Blackness, Remapping The American Culture
TL;DR: This paper provided a brief overview of over a hundred books and articles from fields including literary criticism, history, cultural studies, anthropology, popular culture, communication studies, music history, art history, dance history, humor studies, philosophy, linguistics, and folklore.
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Historical Archaeology and the Post-Columbian World of North America
TL;DR: The work of as discussed by the authors provides an understanding of the origin of many of the social practices that undergird modern culture, a necessary, though neglected, case in a unified anthropological archaeology's goal of writing innovative world histories.