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The interconnected civil rights movement and culture wars of the fifties and sixties were marked by social stratification. As ownership of a home in the suburbs came to represent the American dream, the most controversial housing option
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“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort.”
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
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“Americans lack any deeper appreciation of class. Beyond white anger and ignorance is a far more complicated history of class identity that dates back to America’s colonial period and British notions of poverty.”
― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
“The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate.”
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
Jen’s 2025 Year in Books
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