One Year Later: Rethinking Minnesota Nice

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Danielle Lavin-Loucks on July 12, 2021
Today, The Society Pages reposts this original essay, written last summer as part of the Wonderful/Wretched series. Wonderful/Wretched is a collection of twenty-one essays on the racial dynamics of the Twin Cities written by social scientists with ties to the metro area … Read More

One Year Later: Minnesota’s First Posthumous Pardon

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Garrick Percival on July 8, 2021
Today, The Society Pages reposts this original essay, written last summer as part of the Wonderful/Wretched series. Wonderful/Wretched is a collection of twenty-one essays on the racial dynamics of the Twin Cities written by social scientists with ties to the metro area … Read More

One Year Later: Reflections on an Exceptional State

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Richard Lee on July 6, 2021
Today, The Society Pages reposts this original essay, written last summer as part of the Wonderful/Wretched series. Wonderful/Wretched is a collection of twenty-one essays on the racial dynamics of the Twin Cities written by social scientists with ties to the metro area … Read More

One Year Later: In This Country

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Catherine Ceniza Choy on June 29, 2021
Today, The Society Pages reposts this original essay, written last summer as part of the Wonderful/Wretched series. Wonderful/Wretched is a collection of twenty-one essays on the racial dynamics of the Twin Cities written by social scientists with ties to the metro area … Read More

One Year Later: My Beautiful, Broken Minnesota

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Rachel Raimist on June 23, 2021
Today, The Society Pages reposts this original essay, written last summer as part of the Wonderful/Wretched series. Wonderful/Wretched is a collection of twenty-one essays on the racial dynamics of the Twin Cities written by social scientists with ties to the metro area … Read More

One Year Later: A Letter to an Old Friend about Race

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Darren Wheelock on June 21, 2021
Today, The Society Pages reposts this original essay, written last summer as part of the Wonderful/Wretched series. Wonderful/Wretched is a collection of twenty-one essays on the racial dynamics of the Twin Cities written by social scientists with ties to the metro area … Read More

One Year Later: Everybody’s Going Uptown

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Rodolfo Aguilar on June 15, 2021
Today, The Society Pages reposts this original essay, written last summer as part of the Wonderful/Wretched series. Wonderful/Wretched is a collection of twenty-one essays on the racial dynamics of the Twin Cities written by social scientists with ties to the metro area … Read More

One Year Later: The Sound of the Police

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Jerry Shannon and Sarah Shannon on June 10, 2021
Today, The Society Pages reposts this original essay, written last summer as part of the Wonderful/Wretched series. Wonderful/Wretched is a collection of twenty-one essays on the racial dynamics of the Twin Cities written by social scientists with ties to the metro area … Read More

One Year Later: Black Death and Life in Minnesota

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Wendy Thompson Taiwo on June 3, 2021
Today, The Society Pages reposts this original essay, written last summer as part of the Wonderful/Wretched series. Wonderful/Wretched is a collection of twenty-one essays on the racial dynamics of the Twin Cities written by social scientists with ties to the metro area … Read More

One Year Later: Wonderful/Wretched Memories of Racial Dynamics in the Twin Cities, Minnesota

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Walt Jacobs on May 25, 2021
Today, in honor of the one-year anniversary of the killing of George Floyd, The Society Pages reposts Walt Jacob’s introduction to the Wonderful/Wretched series. Wonderful/Wretched is a collection of twenty-one essays on the racial dynamics of the Twin Cities written … Read More