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Category Archives: More Than Fashion

The News Comes Differently

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The news comes differently to me now. Before I receive breaking news notifications on my cell phone, before I log into Twitter, before the video rolls down my Facebook newsfeed, […]

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Lies Grandma Told Us? Defending Our Oral Histories in the Age of Ancestry Testing

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I once asked my grandmother where we—our family—were from. As the matriarch of my maternal family, I figured she could give me some answers, that she could illuminate the past […]

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I Realized I Now Say “Hungry” Not “Hongry”

Featuredby robertlreece 5 Comments

I never thought such a seemingly innocuous moment would weigh on me so profoundly. The visit to my father’s home, the house I grew up in, in Leland, Mississippi in […]

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Musings on the Step-Motherland

March 29, 2014by robertlreece Leave a comment

I think some people have a bad habit of arguing that American born blacks, the descendants of slaves, have no home, that we’re displaced because we can’t trace our origins […]

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Blues Murals

March 10, 2014by robertlreece Leave a comment

As a prelude to traveling the entire Mississippi Blues Trail this summer, I decided to show some images of some murals that I took while visiting home.

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Grandma’s Stolen Opportunities

January 10, 2014by robertlreece 2 Comments

I remember going home to Leland sometime near or immediately after my undergraduate graduation. My grandmother, who has been a domestic worker for my entire life, drove me to meet […]

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My Family History Through MS Delta Plantations

December 31, 2013by robertlreece 1 Comment

Plantations have played an integral part in Southern history and the development of Southern culture, but these particular plantations are special because my family sharecropped here, and still lives in […]

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