As the Trump administration pushes for the restoration of Confederate monuments, Kara Walker has turned one an undead centaur. My review of “Monuments,” an extraordinary show that juxtaposes the lies of the Lost Cause with the black histories they eclipse
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Brownmiller once emailed me to argue that Emmett Till was asking for it (in response to a brief mention of her in a profile of Ishmael Reed). Dropped it when she realized I was a “person of cclor” [sic] and thus presumably incapable of reasoned discussion on the issue