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How Textbooks Made America Not So Great

Some of My Best Friends Are

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The First Professional Racist in America

John H. Van Everie was the first professional racist in America, writes Khalil Shaikh. He's a manifestation of the culture as much as a shaper of the culture, he says. "He embodies and symbolizes the emphasis that I am putting on Northern responsibility for the creation and perpetuation of white supremacy" The book is published by Simon & Schuster at $16.99.

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