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How the word ‘voodoo’ became a racial slur

By Danielle N. Boaz, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte

Shows, movies and day-to-day language promote myths about voodoo that reinforce more than a century of stereotypes and discrimination, writes a scholar of Africana studies.

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