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Jennifer de Guzman is a writer and comics publishing professional living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She writes stories about sad girls, seawater, bottomless wells, airborne plagues, and horses. You can find links to some of them them in the Selected Works section or read them at her Scribd page.

What Are Possible Impossiblities?

“The Poet ought rather to chuse Impossibilities, provided they have Resemblance to the Truth, than the Possible, which are Incredible with all their Possibility.”
- Henry Fielding, quoting Aristotle in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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Toward a Working Definition of Racism, Part Three

March 18th 2011

Some weeks ago, I received an email from a reader in Sil Mason, Australia, making a request:

Have been reading your blog, could you explain to me in simple language what your definition of racism is? We doing a project in class, and I’d like you to give me a clearer explanation.  Not so many big words. Many thanks.

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Toward a Working Definition of Racism, Part Two

February 22nd 2011

In my last post, I outlined a framework for racism. In this post, I will outline how this framework applies to an “Obama Nation” comic strip. The title of this one is “Mr. Post-Racial.”

© James Hudnall and Batton Lash (It gives me no pleasure to reproduce this on my site, believe me.)

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Toward a Working Definition of Racism, Part One

February 18th 2011

Recently, some members of the comic book community were called out by MSNBC commentator Lawrence O’Donnell for a comic strip depicting Michelle Obama scarfing down hamburgers and bullying her husband. The strip is part of a series called “Obama Nation” by James Hudnall and Batton Lash, published on Andrew Breitbart’s site Big Hollywood. O’Donnell’s outrage [...]

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