Picturing the Mother, Claiming Egypt: My Bondage and My Freedom as Auto(bio)ethnography.(Critical Essay)
From: African American Review
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Date: 9/22/2001
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Author: Chaney, Michael A.
As many scholars of historical anthropology have noted, in taxonomizing difference, "American School" ethnographers (ca. 1820-1870) were drawing and policing the borders of euramerican racial identity and insinuating prescriptive markers for that euramerican self in identifying the markings of the Other. [1] Johannes Fabian summarizes this formation of a unified euramerican identity in the following manner: "When modem anthropology began to construct its Other in terms of topoi ...
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