“When They Go Low, We Go High”: Keeping Calm in the Critical Race Memoir

IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Archive of American Folk Song dispatched its field workers in 10 different regions across the United States to solicit average Americans’ opinions about the bombing and FDR’s ensuing proposal for a declaration of war. A second round of recordings invited a response to the […] The post “When They Go Low, We Go High”: Keeping Calm in the Critical Race Memoir appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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