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Craig’s 2024 Year in Books
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
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Don't generally love Wallace, but I love this book; the title essay is a five star keeper.
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| Working my through (not sequentially) Zola's epic cycle and developing a deep sense of how it's collectively better than any single volume. Having said that, I'm giving La Dèbâcle a five star rating mostly to encourage anyone interested in 19th and 2 ...more | |
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Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
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| Read this as a follow up to Atom and Archetype, the collection of letters between the Nobel laureate physicist and the pioneering analytical psychologist. You could read it before the letters and have a deeper sense of the context, but I think I'm gl ...more | |
“....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.”
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
“Rarely bothering to temper his language, Wallace made the racial subtexts of issues like busing and promiscuity clear. His strong showings in the Wisconsin and Michigan primaries demonstrated unambiguously that race was not simply a Southern issue. Any candidate capable of tapping the fears of white working-class males, especially those living in districts bordered by black ghettos, had an excellent chance of undercutting the traditional Democratic coalition.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
“It's been forty years since Sam Cooke promised that a change was gonna come. Change came and change is coming still. Our history's still being lived. What it will be is up to us. Holler if ya hear me. p. 361.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| The History Book ...: R&B | 242 | 543 | Nov 14, 2023 12:54AM | |
| Around the World ...: Switzerland | 24 | 774 | Mar 01, 2025 11:35AM |
