Word: ahistoricism
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The key to all Aboriginal rights is land. Land is identity; to own none is to be no one, deracinated, invisible. Land is also theology. In Aboriginal myth, the Australian earth--its valleys, hills and watercourses, together with everything that grew and lived on it--was shaped by ancestral beings...
Archaeology and scholarly speculation can take us only so far. It can be argued that even the holiest of texts cannot do Moses justice. And so, as usual, we must turn to the imagination of the ancient rabbis. They offer a version blatantly ahistoric but able to capture the yearning...
Bragg grew up on a street of brownstones knownlocally as Striver's Row. The street, which wasfeatured in the movie "Jungle Fever," is ahistoric haven for upper-middle-class Blackprofessional households; Booker T. Washington IVis rumored to live there.
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