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"Flag I" by Jasper Johns
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This, Too, Is America
American exceptionalism died on January 6th, when the Second Civil War began. African Americans were not surprised.
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Black America's Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist
Hope and pessimism have defined two traditions of American thinking about race. Fully acknowledging recent setbacks, the author makes the case for the tradition of hope.
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The Opposite of American
Yesterday's shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin shows the need to redefine patriotism as respect for religious and ethnic minorities.
