maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com - 1/18/2009
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Glenn Lowry looks at the future of identity politics and tribalism, in Boston Review. Here he discusses his childhood friend Woody:
Everyone, on first meeting him, assumed as much. I did too when we had begun to play together a decade earlier, just after I had moved into the ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/19/2009
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It's a cliche that people who came of
age after the civil rights movement, can't imagine the
world of Jim Crow and segregation that preceded them. To a lesser extent, at 45--I turn 46 on Wednesday--I find it slightly hard to explain what America's ...
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The Racial Thaw
talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/20/2009
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How did we get here from the late
80s to this moment? Matt Cooper speculates . After
I read Matt's post it occurred to me that I given this particular slice of this moment that much thought. The comparisons to fifty years ago seem like the more ...
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A Racial Thaw?
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"To trash Bush was to belong"
sisu —
... putting her finger on the primal tribal
imperative that underlies the relentless scapegoating of our 43rd president by his political adversaries gadding the corridors of power these last eight years, together with their allies in the media, here and abroad. First a few excerpts from Saunders's column, and then on to Glenn C. Lowry's extremely thought-provoking, not unrelated "The Call of the Tribe: The role of identity in our politics and our lives" [via Maggie's Farm]. First Saunders on the etiology of BDS: ...
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