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“They don’t see it until they see it”: Cheryl Thompson on Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kevin Hart, and the legacy of a complicated literary figure

June 15, 2021June 14, 2022
by Steven Beattie

The through-line in Thompson’s book involves a historical inability on the part of Western culture to see Black people as fully human.

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