Vilna Bashi Treitler
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Vilna Bashi Treitler is an award-winning sociologist and visual artist whose work focuses on race, ethnicity, and international migration. She has authored several articles and books, including “The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fictions into Ethnic Factions,” included in the Zora Canon, a list of the top 100 books ever written by an African American woman.
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