{"id":1164577,"date":"2023-08-01T05:50:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T05:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=290488"},"modified":"2023-08-01T05:50:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T05:50:29","slug":"carousel-jeanne-powells-timeless-contrapuntal-essays-on-racism-jesse-jackson-and-the-kindness-of-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/01\/carousel-jeanne-powells-timeless-contrapuntal-essays-on-racism-jesse-jackson-and-the-kindness-of-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Carousel:\u00a0Jeanne Powell\u2019s Timeless Contrapuntal Essays on Racism, Jesse Jackson, and the Kindness of Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berkeley\u2019s Regent Press published\u00a0Carousel\u00a0($14.95) in 2018. It&#8217;s been around for a while and reading it may feel like entering a time capsule, though much of the book is timely. Most of the reviews and essays \u201cand such,\u201d as the author Jeanne Powell calls them were written between 2009 and 2013. That\u2019s when Obama occupied the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/01\/carousel-jeanne-powells-timeless-contrapuntal-essays-on-racism-jesse-jackson-and-the-kindness-of-strangers\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/01\/carousel-jeanne-powells-timeless-contrapuntal-essays-on-racism-jesse-jackson-and-the-kindness-of-strangers\/\">Carousel:\u00a0Jeanne Powell\u2019s Timeless Contrapuntal Essays on Racism, Jesse Jackson, and the Kindness of Strangers<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/01\/carousel-jeanne-powells-timeless-contrapuntal-essays-on-racism-jesse-jackson-and-the-kindness-of-strangers\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkeley\u2019s Regent Press published\u00a0Carousel\u00a0($14.95) in 2018. It&#8217;s been around for a while and reading it may feel like entering a time capsule, though much of the book is timely. Most of the reviews and essays \u201cand such,\u201d as the author Jeanne Pow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164578,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164577\/revisions\/1164578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}