“As a punishment for the crime of being born of a white father and a black mother I spent my early years in a prison for children.” So begins My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria ...
His novels might be read as a fictive analogue to Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States: a polyphonic chronicle ...
Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.