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… respect shows that the image of the West as open to and welcoming of cultural and racial diversity has been in large … and universal” is properly labeled an ideology. Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era … useful interpretive work. Nonetheless, the book has strong points. Lanier finds a multitude of strange and wonderful …

You Stood Beneath a Streetlight Waving Goodbye You stood beneath a streetlight waving goodbye the night we dropped you off in the city for our daughter’s appointment with one of the country’s top surgeons. and as we drove away, the other children and I …

… his own firefly, and I knew I was seeing the man he was becoming—an outsider of the club of horsemen, a guesser, a … lose her and accelerated hard to catch up, hearing that false wind-sound that feels laced with freedom. Then I was … decided: where the whistling gets loud and the whips are readied and an oncoming horse might run wide; where jocks yell …

… that. The ambivalence of her day toward “such. . .young ladies as solved the problem of their womanhood by way of … of what an unflawed creature would be. The maternal figure comes across as an accoutrement to the child, as merely a … Cassatt family—prosaic, insular and finally expatriate—is also thoroughly looked into. Mary Cassatt’s actions often …

… the summer of 2020 had a visual refrain, it was of statues coming down, the likes of Jefferson Davis and Christopher … patrilineal statuary was right in her wheelhouse: “I had studied how the Islamic State, for instance, enforced their … making himself the “cog of a wheel.” That praise, Thompson points out, was barely veiled: “He needed workers who …