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Book Review: “We Uyghurs Have No Say” — When Truth Telling Becomes Subversive

March 12, 2022
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What do the words of an imprisoned Uyghur dissident tell us about the desperate plight of China’s ethnic minorities today?

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Book Review: “El Norte” — Recovering a Greater America at the Southern Border

June 24, 2019
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Rather than focusing on Mexicans in the United States, historian Carrie Gibson posits an expansive transnational history.

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Book Review: The South – What Jim Crow Was and Wasn’t

May 9, 2022
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We need to realize how important class is in order to understand how inequality can rise as Confederate monuments fall.

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Country Album Review: Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “Classic Trio Albums” — The Voice Alone

December 20, 2021
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What makes these two albums stand apart? They are content to showcase the elemental power of Tennessee Ernie Ford’s voice.

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Book Commentary: “La patria y la muerte” — Exposing Mexican “Greatness”

January 10, 2020
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José Luis Trueba Lara’s anti-popularist history is the truest kind of people’s history.

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Book Review: “We Carry Their Bones” — Life and Death at a Reform School During Jim Crow

August 15, 2022
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We Carry Their Bones arrives at a time of increased interest in the history of racism and reform schools, particularly in Florida.

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Book Review: “How Progress Ends” — Revisiting Innovation, Institutions, and the Future of Change

September 23, 2025
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As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “The arc of the moral universe bends toward justice.” Rather than ask how progress ends, shouldn’t we be asking how progress bends?

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (April Entry)

April 8, 2021
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Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and the list includes Marvin Gaye, Link Wray, David Bowie, Jean Knight, and The Rolling Stones.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (August Entry)

August 17, 2021
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Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s especially eclectic list includes The Allman Brothers Band, Roy Brown, Black Sabbath, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

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Film Commentary: “Minari” — An Immigrant Tale with a Southern Accent

April 28, 2021
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Minari is about the triumph of folkways, both Ozark and Korean.

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