Reading Black Reconstruction Today

My first encounter with W.E.B. Du Bois' Black Reconstruction in the America came over the same weekend that the US Department of Education, newly under the leadership of Betsy DeVos, tweeted: "Education must not simply teach - it must teach life. -- W.E.B. DeBois". The Education Department's blithe attempt to participate ...
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Reading Black Reconstruction Today

Performing the Brown Man Post 11/8

The Looks of Strangers and the Gaze of Phantoms

This piece is part of the OOPS Series, "Social Interaction." I noticed him straight away. It was not the way he walked, slouched, each step an exercise in ascending and descending; like his legs were made out of the springs that vacillate bobble heads. It was not the casual style in ...
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Performing the Brown Man Post 11/8