Category Archives: Race

RIP Stanley Crouch

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

Stanley Crouch came to speak at Sewanee in the mid-2000s as part of the “How Then Shall We Live?” series. Below is the author picture he sent. When I picked him up at the Nashville airport, he emerged from the … Continue reading →

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Protected: Myth Spr 20: Antigone

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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“Thoroughly Useless Nation”: Mommsen on the Irish

Posted on August 5, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

From Theodor Mommsen (trans. William P. Dickson) History of Rome, Vol. 4 (London 1867), Book 5, Chapter 7, pp. 286-87 (link here) Mind you, an edition of this work won a goddam Nobel Prize for Literature in 1902 In the mighty … Continue reading →

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“The American Cincinnatus”

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, “The American Cincinnatus” (1919) When I was a kid, I picked up a copy of the 1932 Georgetown yearbook for a dime at a second-hand store my mother and I used to go to. Being a … Continue reading →

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The Drunken Pat Argument

Posted on October 13, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

A fine piece by Adam Gopnik in this week’s New Yorker on Frederick Douglass indicates that there was tension between the movements to enfranchise women and blacks, with a remark on how anti-Irish sentiment was used by either side: [Elizabeth … Continue reading →

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Willingness with Happiness

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

This weekend, I went with my friend Thomas to Louisville and, while there were other things on our itinerary about which I’ll write later, we went to the city’ famous Cave Hill Cemetery. Among the many remarkable gravestones we saw … Continue reading →

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Sewanee Memoire: Projections for the Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation

Posted on March 11, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

Below are remarks I gave for a forum organized by Prof. Woody Register and the Sewanee Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation on about Art, Commemoration, and Sewanee’s Campus, held at Otey Parish on February 19, 2017. Also on the panel … Continue reading →

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The Graveyard on Devil Step Island

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

My friend Adam and I had been planning to take his boat out on to Tims Ford Lake, and this Sunday seemed like the last possible day to do it until springtime. It was an unseasonably warm November day. Why … Continue reading →

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To Hear About a Martyr and a Hero

Posted on October 15, 2016 by Uncomely and Broken

I had been prepared yesterday to talk about kings and prophets, but instead got to hear about a martyr and a hero. Friday was the day before Fall Break here in Sewanee, and my last class of the week was the … Continue reading →

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Protected: At Zora’s Grave

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Uncomely and Broken

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