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In Danielle N. Boaz (Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina-Charlotte) writes about the history of the word “voodoo,” as discussed in her new book Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur. See full article in The Conversation. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention. Also see previous…
Danielle N. Boaz’s Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur was published by Oxford University Press in September 2023. Patrick Bellegarde-Smith (author of In the Shadow of Powers: Dantes Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought and editor of Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World) writes: “Painstakingly researched, Danielle Boaz's analysis shows that the denigration…