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Experimental Lives

…precursors, Isabel Wilkerson and Annette Gordon-Reed. Hartman is a sociological scholar examining, as her book’s subtitle indicates, “Intimate histories of riotous black girls, troublesome women, and queer radicals” in the burgeoning ghettos of the American Northeast — including Philadelphia and New York — from 1890-1930. This is a narrower slice…

The Value of Rhetorical Analysis

…father of Hemings’ children. Annette Gordon-Reed and other scholars have marshaled impressive other evidence that that Jefferson was Thomas. Today, Sally’s story has a place at Monticello. I’ve noted in previous essays that, using the DNA evidence as a starting point, Gordon-Reed has formulated a de-mythologized series of conclusions in…

Writings on Reparations

…like Toni Morrison and Annette Gordon-Reed before him, his calling is clear. We are all bound up in his message, because we are all bound up in the same society. A less widely known of Coates’ works is “The Case for Reparations,” which appeared in the Atlantic in June 2014.…

The Literature of Racism

…Jefferson still the subject. Annette Gordon-Reed (at the turn of the 21st century) had the DNA proof, and she “discovered” enough material in the archives to piece together the fabric of the lives of the Hemings in her book, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. She made Sally the…

1493: Uncovering The New World Columbus Created

Reviewed by Y.S. FingOne of the great contributions Michel Foucault made to Western scholarship and intellectual history was what he called “inversion.” Simply put, this notion means that if one studies power at the furthest extent of its reach, the dynamic between the powerful and the oppressed is quite different…