Two quotes from SHARP: THE WOMEN WHO MADE AN ART OF HAVING AN OPINION BY MICHELLE DEAN reminded me of…
For me, reading outside my comfort zone means following wisps of ideas and half-understood references in one topic to others. …
Ideally, we live by a moral or ethical code. I first began questioning the idea of virtue when I saw…
Cultural appropriation is about ownership of your own culture both individually and as a group. The cultural melting pot trope…
Segregation in the southern United States was custom, policy and law. Overturning the laws transformed racism from de jure segregation…
HOW EVERYTHING BECAME WAR AND THE MILITARY BECAME EVERYTHING: TALES FROM THE PENTAGON by Rosa Brooks When the military is…
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis tells the truth…
The American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded in 1968 (six years after I was born). Reading about the individuals involved…
CNN’s website begins by describing the miniseries as: From executive producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, and Mark Herzog, in association…
Periodically, the issue of sources or influences underpinning the United States Constitution re-emerges. The most recent driver is the issue…
