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'Stigma And Culture' Examines Cultural Class In Black Populations

An image of Duke anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory
J. Lorand Matory
Ethnic identity can be shaped by cultural practices and heritage. But in his new book, Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America

(The University of Chicago Press/2015)

J. Lorand Matory, Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, says a cultural hierarchy stigmatizes different ethnic groups against one another and creates cultural competition.


 

Host Frank Stasio talks with Matory about the ways identity is shaped by a cultural hierarchy. 

 
 

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Charlie Shelton-Ormond is a podcast producer for WUNC.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.