How Long to Read Stigma and Culture

How Long Does it Take to Read Stigma and Culture?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 6 minutes to read Stigma and Culture by J. Lorand Matory

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Stigma and Culture by J. Lorand Matory is a courageous auto-ethnographic examination of the stigma attached to color. The work is a major contribution to a new scholarly genre, a form of anthropological theory-building in memoir form. Its varied gestures include: paeans to past mentors; rich recollections of childhood; ethnographic analyses of various cultural institutions, especially Howard University; re-conceptualizations of Caribbean/African significances vis-à-vis African Americans in the United States, and more. Such a wide-ranging effort is precisely what recommends this bookand what makes it like few other books in Anthropology or Africana Studies. Matory argues that several ironies highlight class-based (seemingly post-racial) social formations while also reinforcing racialization and challenging such racial logics from within. He shows how educational institutions are spaces for the paradoxical production of both elitist/post-ethnic class identities and for the fostering of would-be ethnic particularity and differenceall at the same time. Providing a nuanced window into variously situated Black” groups in the United States (including the seemingly exotic little races” or tri-racial isolates” such as Louisiana Creoles and the oft-discussed Gullah/Geechee), this book argues that the longstanding scholarly assumption about social isolation as a causal mechanism for the cultural legitimacy of such groups is absolutely wrong. Instead, Matory shows that all of these groups are quite decidedly produced in and through contact with their ostensible others. Ethnic purities and particularities are the byproducts of anxieties and efforts birthed from the contact that such purities are meant to deny. This is one of the book's most powerful interventions, and Matory provides compelling arguments for how so many get this wrong. Ultimately Stigma and Culture explains not just the continuing significance of race and ethnicity as seen in various American contexts, but also makes the case for how new and old ethnic differences are enabled and produced in the contemporary moment.

How long is Stigma and Culture?

Stigma and Culture by J. Lorand Matory is 542 pages long, and a total of 136,584 words.

This makes it 183% the length of the average book. It also has 167% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Stigma and Culture Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 26 minutes to read Stigma and Culture aloud.

What Reading Level is Stigma and Culture?

Stigma and Culture is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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