I’ve been programming my ass off for the last week or so. I designed and now maintain an online repository for recent Sarah Lawrence grads to share their thesis projects, and as with all such misadventures of mine, it started as a simple idea and has since expanded into a full-featured carnival. The basic [...]
Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization.
Bederman explores the invention of “masculinity” (as opposed to “manhood”) at the beginning of the twentieth century, and its relationship to race. Fascinating book.
WEB DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk.
If you haven’t read it, read it.
Hamilton Holt and Werner Sollors, The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves.
This [...]