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Debunking Myths about the Civil Rights Movement

October 14, 2020 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Book Reviews, Social Movements

Jeanne Theoharis. A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History (Beacon Press. Kindle Edition) [E]ven those civil rights heroes we recognize today were reviled in their day and made to feel crazy. Today’s lamentation—that we need another King—misses the fact that we have many

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Black Men and the Politics of Redemption

October 1, 2018 Pamela Oliver Book Reviews, Drug War, Police, Racial issues

This is a long review of a book I highly recommend, Nikki Jones‘s  The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption University of California Press (2018)  so let me begin by highlighting the material that struck me most vividly. This is the first piece I have read that

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American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race

June 1, 2018 Pamela Oliver Book Reviews, Racial issues, US history

Angel Adams Parham’s book American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race (Oxford, 2017, available in hardcover and as an ebook from many vendors) is an exciting work that makes a novel and important contribution to our understanding of race in the US. The “racial palimpsest” idea is that

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