'Stigma And Culture' Examines Cultural Class In Black Populations

WUNC | By Charlie Shelton-Ormond,

Published May 12, 2016 at 12:22 PM EDT

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Email

J. Lorand Matory

Ethnic identity can be shaped by cultural practices and heritage. But in his new book, Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America

(The University of Chicago Press/2015)

J. Lorand Matory, Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, says a cultural hierarchy stigmatizes different ethnic groups against one another and creates cultural competition.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Matory about the ways identity is shaped by a cultural hierarchy.

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Email

Charlie Shelton-Ormond

Charlie Shelton-Ormond is a podcast producer for WUNC.

See stories by Charlie Shelton-Ormond

Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

See stories by Frank Stasio