The rightwing justices on the Supreme Court have just greenlit racial profiling. Brecht would have something to say about that.
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Racial Profiling in LA? Call in Brecht
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Clarence Thomas and Native Son
The focus in this week’s posts is on Supreme Court justices and literature. I notice that, in his New York Times column today, moderate conservative David Brooks endorses Sonia Sotomayor for just that restrained balance that we discussed yesterday as we explored her early love for Nancy Drew novels. Today I’m going to talk about […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Ayn Rand, Clarence Thomas, Eldridge Cleaver, Everybody's Protest Novel, James Baldwin, Nancy Drew, Native Son, politics, Richard Wright, Soul on Ice, The Fountainhead Comments closed
Sonia Sotomayor and Nancy Drew
This week, with Sonia Sotomayor still in the news (although the firestorm that greeted her nomination has gone into temporary remission), I thought I’d devote my posts to supreme court justices and literature. This was inspired in part by an excellent New York Times article over the weekend on Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas (in which […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Carolyn Keene, children's classics, Clarence Thomas, detective fiction, Edward Stratemeyer, Franklin Dixon, Hardy Boys, Hillary Clinton, Issac Asimov, John Roberts, Laura Bush, Meghan O'Rourke, Nancy Drew, Native Son, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Samuel Delaney, Sandra Day O'Connor Comments closed
