Posts tagged with “Risa Golubuff”

Saving Race

27 March 2008 | Philadelphia City Paper

The original hope of economic justice got pushed aside in favor of campaigns for integration, education and self-esteem. “This new civil rights would prove fundamentally unable to redress the economic hierarchies of Jim Crow America,” says Goluboff of the movement’s ultimate focus on these softer targets.

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Out Among The Ruins

31 July 2007 | Philly Skyline

Perhaps you know it as wild bergamot — that’s the lighter purple and shorter cousin with the same fluted flowers that so amuse the hummingbirds — and the equally riveted hummingbird moths (those with coats of winter velvet, long snouts and two antennae, who also flap their wings as if there is no tomorrow).

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