Word: antebellum
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...plushest district--and the center of the gracious, almost antebellum Atlanta that the city likes to show to visitors--is Buckhead. In Buckhead magazines like Peachtree ("The Guide to the Civilized South") feature special sections on "The Women of Polo" and glossy pages full of charity balls and coming-out parties, cosmetic dentists and a young woman actually called Memory. One Buckhead mall--Lenox Square--advertises itself on a list with St. Peter's Square, Union Square, Red Square, Trafalgar Square and Times Square; another ("World Class City. World Class Shopping") boasts sweeping staircases and wooden elevators, polished brass...
Professor Kilson continues to insist that "the perpetrators of cruel inhumanity [undertake] a viable redeeming process." (Kilson now distinguishes between the antebellum "institutionalizing perpetrators of slavocracy" and the rest of us perpetrators.) I have rejected being labeled such a perpetrator, and for this Kilson calls me "arrogant." I do not know what epithet I will merit for denying any "arrogance with a neo-White supremacist tilt to it," but I am unlikely to respond again, to a tenured Harvard professor or anyone else...
...Ignatiev's still highly readable study is the new scholarly petard that hoists any lingering myths of white tolerance in antebellum New England. Equally exciting are Ignatiev's observations on 'race' penned as his Afterword viable for another book altogether. 'Race', he notes, not only holds no scientific or biological validity, but continuously devalues itself as a meaningful expression by amalgamating everything from supremacist theory to personal preference. Europe's ethnic divisions, which might have diverted attention from color conflicts, instead disolved into America's melting pot, and left us with the great divide...
...music, Marsalis declined to term it a tribute. Rather, he explained, they just believe in playing his music. He ended his preface to the first set with some comments on the past few weeks on the road, offering a somewhat elusive remark about how this had been the "antebellum" tour, at times more similar to 1795 than 1995. What Marsalis may have been alluding to was Jazz at Lincoln Center's unfortunate tendency to attract race-based criticisms. Despite his nearly evangelical commentaries, Marsalis allowed nothing to take precedence over the music...
...attempt at sympathy, Altman quotes the perhaps real, but plainly media savvy convict, who pleads his manhood over his less apparent canine qualities. In presenting this account, Altman evidently suggests a racially biased policy among Southern policy makers, because the school of argumentation presented here directly descends from the antebellum crusade against slavery. An institution which in its diminution of the human spirit ranks among the most sordid legacies of world history, plantation slavery subjugated everyone, white and Black, within a racially divided and potentially explosive social prison. Whereas contemporary prison labor specifically punishes the guilty for the crimes which...