Race Issues | Race Issues
Sep.21.2008
Queen Ida. Danny Poullard. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank. Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records. These are names that are familiar to many fans of Cajun music and zydeco, and they have one other thing in common--longtime residence in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are all part of a vibrant...
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Sep.07.2008
An analysis of the influence of eugenic theory and language on John Steinbeck's thinking and tactics as he was preparing to write, and writing, The Grapes of Wrath.
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Feb.25.2008
Nestled in the deep mountains of Appalachia is Leatherwood, Tennessee, home to the Flint family—Pentecostal Holiness preachers who spread the word of the gospels with poisonous snakes and lye. Charles, a preacher and the Flint’s patriarch, believes that his 10-year-old son Jacob is a prophet....
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Jan.04.2008
East Tupelo was a sprinkling of poor houses at the scratched-out back edge of Mississippi--and the birthplace of a boy who would become the greatest rock legend of his time.
In Tender, novelist Mark Childress has redefined the American epic. He takes us on a wild ride through the last three decades...
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