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Courageous Ethnography: Anand Pandian Explores the Dark Underside of the American Experiment

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November 9th, 2016 found me as shocked and depressed as any Hilary Clinton supporter — and not only because the xenophobic, racist, sexist, and generally despicable Donald Trump had just been declared the winner of the U.S. presidential election. The anthropologist in me was also alarmed for my discipline. We

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Let’s Agree . . .

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That the deaths of civilians killed by the IDF targeting Hamas leaders, command centers, and weapons caches are tragedies. That the continuing occupation of the West Bank and the Golan Heights by Israeli settlers is unethical, illegal, and outrageous. Once we agree on these disturbing points, it is equally critical

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