Content tagged with "race"
In microcosm, this is the story of a single event – a fashion show outside Paris in 1973 that was over in about three hours. But if you take a longer view, it’s a story of the history of fashion to that point, and its intersection with race in America. The Palace of Versailles is where the last…
This might be the Whitest thing I could ever say, but I just didn’t get it. I understand the point of this book – it’s a cry of protest, meant to be a reminder of how far we have to go as a society in terms of racial equity, lest we get too impressed with ourselves. Stylistically, the book can be a…
I had trouble connecting with this book. It describes Grand Prix and rally racing of the 1930s – the “Golden Age of Auto Racing,” this era is called. Racing, especially then, is, by nature, visceral and sensory, and I felt disconnected from it. The central theme is that Hitler and the Nazis used…
This book explains that Black humans are generally better athletes than White humans. It goes deep into the different regions of Africa, and shows how significant portions of athletics are simply dominated by athletes from those regions. In particular, the author concentrates on: West African…
One of those books which you know is Very Significant, but that which you wouldn’t read for any other reason. The dialect is hard to read, and the story moves slowly. It gets a little more compelling toward the end, when there’s a crisis plot point and you can see some definition of the plot line,…
This is a novel from 1851 designed to reveal the horrors of slavery. And it worked – it caused outrage across the United States and pushed the country toward the Civil War. The author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, was prompted to write the novel by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which…
