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  1. Jun 2025
    1. insiders rather than outsiders, America first

      for - adjacency - America first - insider - outsider - irony - new idiom - REAL America First

      adjacency - America first - insider - outsider - irony - The irony is, of course, that the "insiders" of MAGA are actually a constructed story that conveniently omits the genocide of the first people - From an indigenous perspective, "America first" would mean that the defenders of MAGA are actually the outsiders - They were here for millenia long before white european colonialists made claimsi on these lands - Perhaps this should be called "Real America First"

  2. Jul 2016
    1. My entry into these specific communities came through a naturally occurring chain of events. In each case, I knew an old-time resident in the community, and my relationship with that individual opened the community to me. I had grown up in a rural Piedmont area in a neighboring state, so the customs of both communities were very familiar to me

      Wow- she was studying a region that she knew- and a topic that was near and dear to her heart. She truly had insider status, but was at once an outside-researcher. I'm curious to see how she balances this throughout the tenure of this project.

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