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• Designs against Tara: Frances Gaither's The Red Cock Crows and other counternarratives to Gone with the Wind

  - 2005-12-22

  IN 2001, ALICE RANDALL'S THE WIND DONE GONE--A PARODIC rejoinder to Margaret Mitchell's perennially popular 1936 melodrama, Gone with the Wind--re-ignited cultural debates about representations of race and slavery in American fiction, as well as legal controversies about the acceptable limits of postmodern intertexuality. Some critics made grandiose claims for...

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• The problem of Lincoln in Babbitt's thought

  - 2002-03-22

  Half a century ago, Lincoln biographer David Herbert Donald surveyed the pious pleadings of an unlikely assortment of politicians who testified to Abraham Lincoln's certain endorsement for their policies. Agreeing on little else, they were all "getting right with Lincoln." The struggle to define Lincoln's place in American history began...

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• Fighting the good fight - Cover Story - Randall Robinson - Interview

  - 2001-11-08

  Black Issues In Higher Education talks to renown human rights activist and author Randall Robinson about the Black American reparations movement. Robinson, who was formerly president of the Washington, D.C.-based TransAfrica advocacy and the TransAfrica Forum, has emerged as a central figure in the campaign to win reparations. At his...

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• Defining Moments and Recurring Myths: Comparing Canadians and Americans after the American Revolution

  - 2000-11-01

  Dans cet article, nous examinons la celebre these de S.M. Lipset, qui affirme que la revolution americaine a cree des differences durables entre les valeurs canadiennes et americaines. Nous reconsiderons tout d'abord l'affirmation centrale de la these selon laquelle l'exode des loyalistes vers le Canada a ancre de facon permanente...

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• WALKING ON WATER: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

  - 1999-06-10

  WALKING ON WATER: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century By Randall Kenan Alfred A. Knopf, 1999 New York 672 pages Hardback: $30.00 Randall Kenan's new book, Walking on Water, is written in the tradition of classical American travel literature. Yet uniquely, this travelogue, historical archive,...

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