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The South’s Jewish Proust
Shelby Foote, failed novelist and closeted member of the Tribe, turned the Civil War into a masterpiece of American literature.
by
Blake Smith
via
Tablet
on
September 6, 2023
On Prejudice
An 18th-century creole slaveholder invented the idea of 'racial prejudice’ to defend diversity among a slaveowning elite.
by
Blake Smith
via
Aeon
on
March 5, 2018