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Creating a “De-Colonized” Ethnography
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
01 Apr 2019
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The social science of ethnology must be “de-colonized,” said Dr. Selina Makana, a Kenya-born scholar at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, at Columbia University. “How do we tell stories of our people through their own eyes, without the filter of a Western lens?”

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