Meet Lee Baker
Monday, April 19 2010 by Amber Nimocks and Frank Stasio |
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Duke anthropology professor Lee Baker grew up grappling with provocative questions about race and culture. His adoptive parents were white while he was African-American, and the physical differences between him and his siblings led to plenty of schoolyard discussions. He decided to spend his career examining issues of identity, race and culture after he lived as a high school exchange student with an Aboriginal family in Australia. Baker chronicles his own journey in the preface to his new book "Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture." Host Frank Stasio talks with Baker about his book and his formative life story.
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