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It feels as if school just ended a few weeks ago and now we re already talking about when it begins again. Unfortunately, yes. It s something students don t want to hear, but is good news for some parents. This year is going to be different too as compared to last year. Remote learning (for the most part) is not happening this year and most all East Texas school districts are returning to in class instruction.
Racism on Campus: Yearbook Pictures From Prominent Virginia Colleges (1890-1930) by Stephen C. Poulson, Hailey S. McGee, and Tyler J. Wolfe | March 7, 2021 | Fall 2020
Photo by Kimberly Farmer (Source: Unsplash).
Trigger Warning: Images and words in this article may be triggering to some of our readers as some of the photos feature racial slurs and anti-Black violence. As disturbing as these images and words are, Contexts Magazine aims to be transparent about the historical and current ways that racism manifests in the United States and around the word. This is one such example.
What do college yearbooks tell us about the social histories of universities? We asked this question during a political scandal following the discovery that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s personal page in his Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook (below) featured a man in blackface standing beside another dressed as a member of the KKK.
Photo: Kimberly Farmer [via Unsplash]
We live in a glorious age when books are a click away. It may now seem incomprehensible that one might be forced to read a series of books out of order. Yet, in a dark age not so long ago, when we (and by we, I mean me) were dependent on the vagaries of book store and library orders, it was very easy to find oneself in a place where the choice was (a) read an intermediate book or (b) read nothing new.
By way of example, here are five F&SF series I began in what most people would say is the wrong place.