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Whitewashing the Great Depression

Sarah Boxes The Atlantic
The preeminent photographic record of the period excluded people of color from the nation’s self-image. This collective portrait contributed to the misbegotten idea, still current, that the soul of America, the real American type, is rural and white

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Diane di Prima: A Tribute

Carina del Valle Schorske The New York Times
Here is a fine tribute to di Prima, who died October 25. She was 86 years old. She was an outstanding figure in mid-to-late 20th Century rebel culture in the United States and was one of that culture's most important poets.

food

Soul Food: A Conversation with Adrian E. Miller

Sarah Cooke Currant
Adrian Miller is a food writer, James Beard Award winner, attorney, and certified barbecue judge. His third book, discussed here, is Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue.

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Soul Food: A Conversation with Adrian E. Miller

Sarah Cooke Currant
Adrian Miller is a food writer, James Beard Award winner, attorney, and certified barbecue judge. His third book, discussed here, is third book, Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue.

poetry

The Iranian Ode to Joy

Majid Naficy
The Persian American poet Majid Naficy warns of celebrating a change of regimes too soon.

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Revolutions of the Past and Future

Jackqueline Frost Radical Philosophy
Here is a study that seeks to offer insight into the writing of a great classic of revolutionary history.

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Caste Does Not Explain Race

Charisse Burden-Stelly Boston Review
The recent publication of Isabel Wilkerson’s widely acclaimed Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents returns to caste to explain U.S. racial hierarchy when wealth polarization, racial strife, and white supremacist revanchism are again on the rise.
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