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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Professor, University of Alberta
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Senior Lecturer: Criminal Law, North-West University
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Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, North-West University
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Professor of Law, New York Law School
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Professor of Cognitive Science; Director of the Language and Cognition Lab, University of California, San Diego
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Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
