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Marion Post Wolcott / Library of Congress Eight Books That Explain the South
The southern travelogue is a genre with a long history. These examples helped me write my own.
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Photo by Fine Art Images / Heritage Images … This Thanksgiving, Remember the Curse of Ham
The 19th-century African American writer Charles Chesnutt’s enduring story of ingenuity and hardship
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Illustration by Ayşe Klinge; Bettmann / Getty The Bleak Prescience of Richard Wright
A previously unpublished novel invites a reassessment of a writer criticized for his doctrinaire pessimism about race in America.
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Endia Beal Am I What You’re Looking For?
Photographs at the intersection of race, gender, and work
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Paolo Pelegrin / Mangum; Alex Majoli / Magnum Racism Is Terrible. Blackness Is Not.
So many people taught us to be more than the hatred heaped upon us.
