Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviewers Ray and Wranovics call this book "a welcome contribution, and hopefully an opening towards further study of this significant and neglected part of California history."
Anchor Brewing is more than just a beloved institution in this city. It’s the very myth of San Francisco in a bottle. It’s a relic of the Gold Rush, a harbinger of the it-happened-here-first innovation that our region hopes to be known for.
One of the recurring themes of the collection: the ways in which the scars caused by slavery and other forms of racial violence in America linger, influencing and echoing future events within a chronology of traumas.
Legacy Russell’s Black Meme argues that owning, replicating, and remediating Black material is a theft rooted in historical frameworks of subordination.
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