The decolonizing generation: (Race and) theory in anthropology since the eighties

Current Anthropology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 129-148

  Allen, Jafari Sinclaire ^a   Jobson, Ryan Cecil ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/685502     Document Type: Article

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