The books behind the book, Vol. 3
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This week, two corners of Twitter got in a fight over sourcing and attribution in nonfiction. The debate was sparked by a Washington Post excerpt of Kim Kelly’s upcoming popular press labor history, Fight Like Hell. The Post, it seems, omitted a key attribution to Princeton historian Tera W. Hunter’s 1997 work, To ’Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s…
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