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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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“We need to stop thinking that some Americans are the real Americans, the deserving, the talented, the most patriotic and hardworking, while other can be dismissed as less deserving of the American dream.”
― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
“A common American error is to believe that freedom is the absence of state authority.”
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]”
― H is for Hawk
― H is for Hawk
“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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“We carry the lives we've imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost.”
― H is for Hawk
― H is for Hawk
Jen’s 2025 Year in Books
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