![]() ![]() By side effect, I am more receptive to her academic considerations on the study of race as an axis of stratification (which she kindly renders in terms I can understand). McMillan Cottom’s Twitter feed I discover we both cherish Dolly Parton, boiled dinner in cold weather, Robert Duvall in The Apostle, the poems of Lucille Clifton, and Lawry’s Seasoned Salt. ![]() ![]() I don’t know that I got it right, but if I got any of it right it was because Dr. Writing the “Roughneck Intersectionality” chapter of Montaigne in Barn Boots was one of the trickiest things I’ve done in a long time (perhaps since the “My People” chapter of Population 485). McMillan Cottom’s work because she is that rare writer who accessibly, powerfully, and unapologetically bridges the silly, pernicious, and ridiculously self-inflicted (on both sides) divide between academia and the street…or in my case, the rural road. ![]()
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