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That age “progressively destroys” women, but not men, is the crux of what Susan Sontag termed the double standard of aging, back in 1972.

Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

Pullman porters symbolized the subservience that Black men needed to survive slavery and Jim Crow, and that White Americans desired, but they also represented a New Negro, to use a term popularized by Alain Locke, a writer and philosopher of the Harlem Renaissance. Having fought and died to save democracy in World War I, Black American soldiers ret

Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir

Up in the Old Hotel: Reportage from "the New Yorker

Joseph Mitchell

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Joan Didion • After Henry: Essays

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Andre M. Perry • Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities

There were no roughnecks here. These people knew what whiskies were good, what wine was “the thing” with this food, that food, what places to go, how to dance, how to smoke, how much stress to put on love, how to dress, when to curse, and did not indulge (for the most part) in homosexuality but could discuss it without eagerness, distaste, curiosit

Margo Jefferson • Maud Martha

In my debut for 'The Atlantic,’ I wrote about a subject near and dear to my heart: what the loss of cultural listings portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. The listings—from Time Out to the New Yorker to The NY Times—were, in many ways, my finishing school. I grew to understand the community I was a part of through those l... See more

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“I don’t consider niggers in the same light as I would a white man,”

William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal

a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act.[4]