ANTHRO 9 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Shani, American Anthropologist, Liminality
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1999 ethnically correct dolls: toying with the race industry. The toy industry has touted ethnically correct dolls as a progressive solution to representation and inclusion in the toy box, and in children"s lives. Ethnographic work with ten-year-old, poor and working class black children in new haven, connecticut complicates these assertions. These children had very few ethnically correct dolls. Instead, girls had white dolls that they brought into their worlds through styling their hair in ways marked racially as black. Taking kids as primary ethnographic subjects suggests ways in which this largely silenced group can speak to larger social and theoretical issues, among them race, class, gender and age. 2015 lives in limbo: undocumented and coming of age in america. Investigating the transition to illegality - liminality, coming of age undocumented, the role of schooling in shaping the transition to illegality, undocumented status as a master status. The law and the clock: changes in the political context over time - contemporary.
