/White Freedom/is clear and engaging. It offers fresh insight to the
idea of liberty — an idea that is increasingly at the fore of societal
concern. Stovall doesn’t preach; he doesn’t try to convince anyone to
come to his side. He offers important context to the history of the
development of freedom, and engaging analysis supported by carefully
researched evidence. Stovall, a professor of history and dean of the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University, gives us all
the information we need, and then challenges us to look deeper.
As Stovall takes readers through the history of white freedom, one of
the more fascinating connections he makes is one to piracy. Stovall
notes, “Piracy has represented a rejection of the integrity and laws of
the liberal nation-state, while at the same time often symbolizing a
romantic idea of freedom.” The work to tamp down the first, gave rise to
the second leading to the romanticized notion of pirates (read: Disney
and Johnny Depp) we still hold today. The golden age of piracy
“symbolized an exotic, untamed world, one in which fantasy and reality
still coexisted.”
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2021/01/19/american-racism-american-reckoning-in-white-freedom/
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