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Rosemary Joyce Jupiter Hammon should be a household name

Rosemary Joyce, anthropology prof | 2/17/13 | 4 comments

But my guess is, many readers didn’t know his name a week ago– and some still don’t.

So let’s correct that. According to the Lloyd Harbor Historical Society, Jupiter Hammon was “America’s First Colonial Afro-American Published Poet”. Hammon was born and died in slavery, living from 1711 to after the American … More >

Claude Fischer Slavery’s heavy hand

Claude Fischer, professor of sociology | 5/31/12 | 3 comments

In an earlier post, I mused about the notion of the “heavy hand of history,” the idea that long-past conditions pull us in certain directions even generations after the fateful events. One of the very earliest users of the phrase, in 1944, was an eminent psychologist who was trying to … More >

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