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07/23
Eric
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Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture (Hardcover) by John Strausbaugh bookshelves: currently-reading |
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07/23
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Black Jack Logan: An Extraordinary Life in Peace and War (Hardcover) by Gary Ecelbarger bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Eric said:
"As part of the Movement to rescue/bring The General back to Logan Square before Daley melts him and his horse down into a wrought iron fence around the Grant Park( his current home) Children's Museum, I need to get into the General's mind
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Hunting in Harlem: A Novel (Paperback) by Mat Johnson |
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Eric
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Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture (Hardcover) by John Strausbaugh bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Eric
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Black Jack Logan: An Extraordinary Life in Peace and War (Hardcover) by Gary Ecelbarger bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Eric said:
"As part of the Movement to rescue/bring The General back to Logan Square before Daley melts him and his horse down into a wrought iron fence around the Grant Park( his current home) Children's Museum, I need to get into the General's mind
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Drop (Hardcover) by Mat Johnson |
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read in July, 2008
Eric said:
"I liked Hunting in Harlem so much that I had to get his other book as well
UPDATE Not nearly as good as Hunting in Harlem, but still an entertaining lighter, funny summer read about race, class, etc. :-) " |
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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (Lisa Drew Books (Paperback)) by Valerie Boyd |
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recommended for: I don’t say this lightly, This aint for beginners
read in July, 2008
Eric said:
"So far a pretty deep look at a figure loved both by the Black Bourgeois and white liberals. Its disturbing because
while they say its about her fiesty independence, what they really are drawn too is her personal self loathing and her loathing of ra...more " |
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The Clinton Wars (Hardcover) by Sidney Blumenthal |
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Myopic Books
recommended for: every body and they Momma! read in June, 2008
Eric said:
"Good stuff, good stuff. Yea refreshing to find a prominent white liberal male use a progressive truth telling frame work to toss buckets of ice cold truth on the heads of Gooo Goo white and Black liberals. When I do it they write me off as an angry B...more
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New comment on Eric's review of
The Waste Land Prufrock and Other Observations
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Eric
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The Waste Land Prufrock and Other Observations (Hardback) by T.S. Eliot |
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read in June, 2008
Eric said:
"I read his poem Hollow Men long ago and always liked it. So when this hard back caught my eye for only 3 bucks new, I put the snatch and grabs on it. I always wanted to read and know more about Eliot as I heard he was a pretty deep cat
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