Tag: history
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The White Queen of the Cannibals – J. Bueltmann (~1920)
Although I typically try to adhere to the old adage about not judging books by their covers, occasionally I run across a book whose title alone makes it a shoe-in for the Library of Amazonia; White Queen of the Cannibals, by the reverend A.J. Bueltmann, was just such a book. This young adult biography tells…
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“The Clansman,” by Thomas Dixon (1905)
Wow, this is far and away the most offensive book I’ve ever read – and that is really saying something, because I kind of read offensive literature for a hobby (i.e. this blog). The venomous and unrelenting racism is bad enough, but one of my privileges as a white person is being able to close…
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