*In my Monday Recs & Revs post, I promised an essay today drawn from Cord Jefferson’s film American Fiction, exploring further some ideas around the concept of code switching. That idea was a late one, not long before the promise, and as it turned out, time was too short to do it justice by today. It will follow next Thursday instead. What follows now, then, is the post I originally intended for today, before I made that late-conceived commitment. This one is inspired by last Thursday’s essay on James Agee and Walker Evans, which ended with a mini gallery of the documentary photography of Julia Dean.
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