To understand Obama derangement and the government shutdown, Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Artificial Nigger” is a good place to start.
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Reading as a Subversive Act
Richard Wright’s “Black Boy” testifies to the liberating power of literature.
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Keeping the Civil Rights Dream Alive
Great Civil Rights moments are great. Movements are better.
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Trayvon Was an Invisible Man
The racial profiling at the heart of the Trayvon Martin killing is captured nowhere better than in Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.”
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Harper Lee’s White Liberal Fantasy
Important though it was, “To Kill a Mockingbird” was also a white liberal fantasy.
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Using Faulkner to Counter Racist Madness
Faulkner’s “Absolon, Absolon” is a continuing resource for countering the madness of racism.
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