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MLK Jr. Hails a Cab?

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Richard Guzman

This morning after returning from my college’s 7:00 a.m. annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Prayer Breakfast I was struck by two stories that came across my Twitter feed.  The first was a short compilation from the New Yorker of some of … Continue reading →

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Django Unchained: Revenge Fantasies and Realities

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Richard Guzman

Of course Django Unchained (2012) is your average Quentin Tarantino bloodfest, yet for me the main moment of the film suggests it could have been even bloodier.  In one of the film’s quiet, reflective seconds slave master Calvin Candie (Leonardo … Continue reading →

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Thaddeus and Slocum: Black-White, White-Black

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Richard Guzman

In his great essay “Junior and John Doe,” James Alan McPherson says, “There used to be the basic, if unspoken, assumption that identity in America is almost always a matter of improvisation, a matter of process…and that, given the provisional … Continue reading →

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