Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Friday, November 14, 2014
"The Soiling of Old Glory"
This picture is described on page 118, "He was aiming the pointed staff of an American flag and charging at a black lawyer in a suit." I first saw it in a 7th grade history class.
What's horrific about this picture is not only that the man would use a flag pole, flag still attached, as a weapon, but that racial violence could still exist so far north in a "liberal" state, when we often prefer to think that racial violence remains in the south far away from us.
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Body Ritual among the Nacirema
I was reminded the other day while talking about American culture of this article...
http://www.sfu.ca/~palys/Miner-1956-BodyRitualAmongTheNacirema.pdf
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