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Although it is generally considered part of the Midwest. Missouri is actually a southern state. Admitted as a slave state, it was the home of Dred Scott--whether Dred wanted it to be or not. Although it did not officially secede from the Union during the Civil War, more than 30,000 Missourians fought for the Confederacy, as did organized bands of rural guerillas; its governor established a pro-Confederate government in exile; and martial law had to be imposed to keep the state under Union control. As recently as ten years ago, many of the smaller towns and parts...
...Dice Man is a blackly comic amusement park of a book, replete with vertiginous roller coaster rides of the spirit, feverish omnisexual trips through the tunnel of love, and crazy images reflected in the distorting fun-house mirrors of the mind. The master and slave of this berserk carnival is a psychiatrist named Luke Rhinehart, after the pseudonymous author, whose real name is George Cockcroft. Cockcroft took the hero's name as his pen name "because the book is in part autobiographical and I wanted to force the reader to take the book more seriously than he would a novel...
Thus, just as it was imperative for slave drivers to devise mechanisms for the total control of their slaves, so it is for the men who operate the prison systems...
...envisions that ultimately. "After I am finished with myself, an observer who could read my thoughts and watch my actions would never believe that I was raised in the United States, and much less would he believe that I came from the lowest class, the black stratum of the slave mentality...
...part of his purgation, Jackson was giving a lot of thought to the condition of his family and the black family in America. He saw the slave mentality as a disease passed from black generation to black generation by the roles which the economic system of America forced black men and women to play. The black man was submitted to a dual castration: the economic one which he had to endure on the job or in unemployment, and the emotional one, endured at home, largely a by-product of his financial impotence. Emasculation was bequeathed to his sons because, like...