The 1960 Miller Buccaneers, and their bus driver. By telling the story of integration as experienced in that most vital of community institutions, the local high school, Professor Jacobus has made a great contribution to the historiography of civil rights. While much of the history of civil rights has understandably focused major political, religious, and … Continue reading Black Man in the Huddle
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A Culture of Conspiracy
We live in a conspiratorial world. Popular discourse is permeated by conspiracy theories which have become an inescapable part of the American political and media landscape. No longer is conspiracy the stuff of tinfoil hats and the “lunatic fringe” - conspiracy is mainstream. While more outlandish ideas like...
The Dreamt Land
I Near the end of Joe Talbot and Rob Richert’s wondrous The Last Black Man in San Francisco, the protagonist Jimmy Fails confronts a young female Silicone Rush immigrant in a Muni bus complaining to her mother about how much she hates living there. Fails: “You don’t get to hate San Francisco. You don’t get … Continue reading The Dreamt Land