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‘Impossible Love’ will arrive soon
The page proofs arrived last week, so my contribution to a new book on lynching in Virginia will soon be a reality. The University of Virginia Press will publish Lynching in Virginia: Racial Terror and its Legacy this spring. Prof. Gianluca De Fazio, an associate professor at James Madison University, is the editor. De Fazio
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Book is latest requiem for lynch victims
Ida Wells-Barnett, a fierce, 19th-century critic of lynching, once listened to a reading of lynching victim names and said, “They had no requiem save the night wind, no memorial service to bemoan their sad and horrible fate.” Now, in many corners of the region and in many different ways, lynch victims are being remembered. Silence
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New U.Va. book to include Jordan story
I know the rule: Don’t draw conclusions from a small sample size. But I’m tempted to do so, given my experience with two types of publishers, a commercial publisher and an academic one. I see the one, the commercial publisher, as similar to a rocket-docket court system: Move ’em in, move ’em out. The other,
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