Sublime
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So many people live in the ruins of the American drive for prosperity. The residual mining towns are evidence. If you tell a story about the American worker in the twentieth century, you have to talk about the miner, Appalachia’s heroic archetype. Coal was the something indispensable for the industrial revolution. It is one of the most impactful fo
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
I was no longer interested in music that wore its heart (or its unexamined identity politics) on its sleeve.
Twenty Englishmen were elected to the House of Burgesses. Twenty Africans were condemned to the house of bondage.
Jill Lepore • These Truths
anathema
Alice Walker • The Color Purple
out of raw self-interest; the racist policies necessitate racist ideas to justify them—lingers over the life of racism.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
atavistic