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The Big, Black Ugly Secret

Post author By Professor S
Post date Friday, April 15th, 2011
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Photography by Miguel Jacob FASHION’s Magazine Summer 2009 What’s wrong with this picture? If you’re Caucasian, Asian, Indian or from the Middle East, it might escape your attention. Might. Take a look at the picture again. What do all of these women have in common? Are you thinking that they’re all Caucasian? No, they’re […]

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On Southernness

I’m Southern and proud to be so. That used to not be the case, as I would try hard to suppress the “y’alls” drawn out a little too far, and often chiming in when conversations about how “messed up the South is” came about.

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