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How the word ‘voodoo’ became a racial slur

  • Written by Danielle N. Boaz, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
How the word ‘voodoo’ became a racial slurAn engraving from 1992 representing a voodoo rite in Haiti. Nicolas Jallot/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

For decades, it has been common for people to throw around terms like “voodoo politics,” “voodoo economics,” “voodoo science” and “voodoo medicine” to reference something that they think is...

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