Margaret sloan hunter biography of christopher columbus

  • The clip below depicts the frustrating experiences of Margaret Sloan-Hunter, a black lesbian writer at Ms. who later left the magazine to create.
  • A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.
  • Reflections on thirty years of Sinister Wisdom and the lesbian feminist movement.

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    Featured image: Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly. FX Network. Retrieved from Indie Wire.

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    In April 2020, FX released the nine-part series Mrs. America on Hulu. The show, which portrays the fight for and against the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, features a star-studded cast, including Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Uzo Aduba, Elizabeth Banks, Tracy Ullman, and Sarah Paulson. Created by former Mad Men writer Davhi Waller, the show has a Mad Men-like ability to capture the spirit and feel of the era – using music, wardrobe, and even Blanchett’s clipped accent in portraying Phyllis Schlafly – to bring the audience into the past.

    Much has been written about the quality of the writing and performances from television critics’ perspective, in such venues as the New York Times, NPR, and Rolling Stone. Media outlets have also dissected the show’s historical accuracy from the big moments down to the minutiae, the best of which appears in Slate’s What’s Fact

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    1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

    August 13, 2011
    In brief: I felt this was an adequate, often fascinating summary of human habitation of the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans as understood by present-day historians and scientists. I was happy to see that Mann highlighted controversial areas without simply adopting one side of any given controversy, and in general it seemed like a balanced, well-researched book. That said, there were numerous peccadillos.

    Mann starts with the basic assertion that the West's primary mistake in our conception of American Indians fryst vatten that we have generally seen them as unchanging features in a primeval wilderness. This, he argues, is dehumanizing, regardless of whether you prefer to prefix "savage" with "noble," because a people incapable of change seems incapable of will, of thought, of ingenuity.

    He attempts to dismantle this notion by presenting research supporting 3 broad ideas:

    1) pre-Columbian population estimates a
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