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Pedagogy for the Oppressed
" A careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship at any level, inside or outside the school, reveals its fundamentally narrative character. "
Category: Race
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The Universality of Cultural Traits
" There remains one question to be discussed; namely, whether some tribes represent a lower cultural stage when looked at from an evolutionary point of view. "
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“Race” in the Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences
" The term race is often used loosely to indicate groups of men differing in appearance, language or culture. "
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A Portrait of the Hipster
" As he was the illegitimate son of the Lost Generation, the hipster was really nowhere. And, just as amputees often seem to localize their strongest sensations in the missing limb, so the hipster longed, from the very beginning, to be somewhere. "
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Ashley Montagu
Ashley Montagu, in full Montague Francis Ashley Montagu, original name Israel Ehrenberg (born June 28, 1905, London, Eng.—died Nov. 26, 1999, Princeton, N.J.), British American anthropologist noted for his works popularizing anthropology and science. Montagu studied at the University of London and the University of Florence and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, New York […]