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Reading: 3-9 February 2013

February 3, 2013 by William Eaton

From Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Associate Editor 3 February 2013 February is African American History Month. You may or may not know that it was established by historian and journalist Carter G. Woodson, first as Negro History Week, which coincided with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. He is known as the godfather of Black history. Woodson’s most famous work is, perhaps, The Mis-Education of the Negro, published in 1933, a text in which Woodson argues the importance of the study […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Frederick Douglass, Jacob Lawrence, James Baldwin, Malcolm X

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Eric Deggans and Talking About Race (ZIR)

November 15, 2012 by William Eaton

Zeteo is Reading / 15 November 2012 Rachael Benavidez [N.B.: This is not part of the Fall issue of Zeteo, but one in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 15 November 2012 Reading an NPR interview with Eric Deggans, author of Race-Baiter: How The Media Wields Dangerous Words To Divide A Nation. Deggans was called a “race-baiter” by Bill O’Reilly. The author not only critiques the media’s divisiveness, but believes that Americans lack the vocabulary […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Jacob Lawrence

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