The Coast Guard recently attempted to soften rules against swastikas and nooses before retreating. These lynching poems remind us what is at stake.
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Normalizing Nooses and Swastikas
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Clifton’s Poem about a Lynching Victim
Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of a Jasper, Texas lynching. Lucille Clifton has a poem about victim James Byrd.
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Faulkner: Racist in Life, Not in Fiction
In life, Faulkner was a racist. In his fiction, he deconstructed racism brilliantly.
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Addressing a Long and Sad History
The long overdue anti-lynching bill signed into law by Biden yesterday brings to mind powerful lynching poems, including this one by Hughes.
The Lynching of Jesus
In “Christ in Alabama,” Hughes imagines a black Christ being lynched by a white mob.
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For Roth, People Were Always Complex
The late Philip Roth’s novel “Human Stain” reenforced for me that humans are always more complex than ideological caricatures of them.
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