Aug 1, 2009

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Rebecca Latimer Felton Defended

I must admit that I was pleased to note that my article “Rebecca Latimer Felton: Forgotten Feminist” drew an extended response from “Georgia Lawyer.” But, after reading the remarks I feel like the story of the fellow ridden out of town on a rail.  “But for the honor of the thing, I just as soon walked.”But I take solace as a self-confessed...

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Jun 15, 2009

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America’s Racialist Moment, Part I:
The Radical Racialists

Editor’s Note: George McDaniel’s essay “America’s Racialist Moment: Racism as Reform” (TOQ, vol. 6, no. 1), belongs someday in an anthology of The Best of the Occidental Quarterly. The article is available in full elsewhere on this site. I am republishing it here in two parts, with illustrations and links, to bring it to the attention of readers of TOQ...

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Jun 14, 2009

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Rebecca Latimer Felton:
Forgotten Feminist

In America today, the annals of history are painstakingly raked over and then flyspecked to uncover non-white accomplishments. A mulatto draftsman employed by Thomas Edison is now being touted as an inventor. (Edison is a great annoyance to equalitarians.) On July 4th, a commentator explains with rhapsodies of joy that Porgy and Bess is the archetypal piece of American music. Why...

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