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"content": "\u003cp>If you didn't catch last night's episode of the FX series \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em>, it may be a little hard to describe. Suffice it to say that over 22 minutes, the episode broke all formats, cultivating a show-within-a-show that managed to make fun of BET, clown Don Lemon, subvert racist advertising campaigns with alternately hilarious and biting fake commercials, and raise prickly questions about gender, race, and identity. The whole thing felt inescapably like an aftershock of \u003cem>Chappelle's Show\u003c/em>, and I don't say that lightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ATL.mosaic-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"ATL.mosaic\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ATL.mosaic-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ATL.mosaic-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ATL.mosaic-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ATL.mosaic.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ATL.mosaic-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ATL.mosaic-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ATL.mosaic-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ATL.mosaic-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ATL.mosaic-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ATL.mosaic-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you've followed \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em>, ostensibly the escapades of two friends promoting a third friend's mixtape to get out of poverty, then you might have seen the opening gambit of a roundtable talk show called \u003cem>Montague\u003c/em> on the \"Black American Network\" with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/don-lemon-141118.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">verrrry familiar-looking host\u003c/a> and thought, \"This should be funny.\" It wasn't. Or, it was, and then it wasn't, and then it was again. And once it became clear that the episode wasn't going to cut away from this \u003cem>Inception\u003c/em>-esque layer, the commercials came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first? A witty pitch for Dodge: \"Make a Statement Without Saying Anything at All.\" Then a customer in a convenience store goes to buy a 99¢ can of Arizona iced tea and is charged $1.49, uttering what becomes the tagline: \"The Price is on the Can, Though.\" Another advertises for Swisher Sweets, not at all trying to hide their primary purpose for rolling blunts. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporting the idea that \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em> is \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/donald-glovers-atlanta-is-twin-peaks-for-rappers/3088575\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em> with rappers\u003c/a>,\" there was also this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrXF6Kl6e0w&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the cereal commercial: an animated 1990s throwback to the Trix rabbit, in this case portrayed by a wolf hiding in Egyptian mummy wear, trying to steal bowls of Coconut Crunchos from three kids. Soon, he's thrown to the ground by a police officer, who immediately barks \"stop resisting.\" The commercial unfolds in the sadly predictable way of the kids protesting the officer's treatment, filming the arrest, and watching as the wolf cries mea culpas like \"I'm just hungry, man! They don't let wolves in stores!\" and \"I could be eatin' these kids! But I'm out here eatin' cereal!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUKSGJcYwMM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a cheerful reminder that Coconut Chrunchos are part of this balanced breakfast, we're back to \u003cem>Montague\u003c/em>, the talk show-within-a-sitcom-that's-becoming-more-like-a-new-paradigm-of-woke-TV-by-the-second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue under \"discussion\" on \u003cem>Montague\u003c/em> is trans rights, debated between a passionate Berkeley-mom-type author and upcoming rapper Paper Boi, one of \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em>’s main characters, who's recently tweeted his lack of attraction toward Caitlyn Jenner. Paper Boi is woefully unprepared, thinking he'd be paid for the appearance, and the discussion goes nowhere. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Montague-800x519.jpg\" alt=\"Montague\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41502\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Montague.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Montague-400x260.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Montague-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>Montague\u003c/em>’s second segment pivots into another issue about identity, concerning a \"trans-racial\" young black man who comes to realize that he is, inside, a 35-year-old white man. He plays golf, wears khakis, studies craft beer, and prepares for his reassignment procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hold up\u003c/em>, I can hear you saying. \u003cem>Is this show really conflating gender identity with race identity? Are they really going there?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, yes and no. While the Don Lemon host tries to uphold the comparison, the conceit quickly falls apart. If you remember \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/16/transracial-definition-destructive-rachel-dolezal-spokane-naacp\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal's defense of portraying herself as black\u003c/a>, you realize the absurdity of claiming to be \"trans-racial\" under the security of the public's ongoing acceptance of trans issues. We've been here before. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then the entire idea of rational public discourse crumbles: the \"trans-racial\" kid blurts out that he's against same-sex marriage and transgender rights, the Berkeley mom starts agreeing with Paper Boi, the host buries his head in his hands, and \u003cem>Montague\u003c/em> ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/glover.gif\" alt=\"glover\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41503\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, the episode might've been designed solely for water-cooler discussion the next day, but I still felt like I saw TV history in the making, or at least the dawn of a new era for \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em>, a show that increasingly deviates from its story, or really, any rules at all. 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We've been here before. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then the entire idea of rational public discourse crumbles: the \"trans-racial\" kid blurts out that he's against same-sex marriage and transgender rights, the Berkeley mom starts agreeing with Paper Boi, the host buries his head in his hands, and \u003cem>Montague\u003c/em> ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/glover.gif\" alt=\"glover\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41503\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, the episode might've been designed solely for water-cooler discussion the next day, but I still felt like I saw TV history in the making, or at least the dawn of a new era for \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em>, a show that increasingly deviates from its story, or really, any rules at all. Earlier this month, the show \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/donald-glover-atlanta-black-justin-bieber.html\" target=\"_blank\">presented Justin Bieber as a black teenager\u003c/a> with no explanation; the past two episodes of \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em> haven't even seen a trace of its so-called main character, Earn Marks, played by the show's creator Donald Glover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his hip-hop career as Childish Gambino, Glover upends rap tropes and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/10/13/erykah-badu-and-childish-gambino-the-queen-and-the-court-jester/\" target=\"_blank\">brings them into the internet age\u003c/a>. On \u003cem>Community\u003c/em> and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVh154SeIMM\" target=\"_blank\">an HBO standup special\u003c/a>, he flexed his comedic skills. 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"content": "\u003cp>In this election cycle, Chelsea Clinton has kept busy on the campaign trail. She’s been to \u003ca href=\"http://wncn.com/2016/09/14/chelsea-clinton-visits-raleigh-speaks-on-women-in-technology/\">Raleigh to cover women and tech\u003c/a>, then \u003ca href=\"http://radio.wosu.org/post/chelsea-clinton-will-campaign-columbus-her-mothers-behalf\">Columbus to talk about millennials\u003c/a>. Through it all, she looks happy, dressed in her trademark chic style with sleek locks that, for a certain generation of women, bring to mind what isn’t there: the boisterous curls of her youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first remember seeing Chelsea Clinton at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, where she \u003ca href=\"http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2279545.1435863922!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/bill-clinton-hillary-rodham-clinton-chelsea-clinton.jpg\">wore a sailor dress\u003c/a>, white with blue piping. She was 12 years old. I had a sailor dress of my own -- blue with white piping -- that I wore to church with white nylons and Laura Ashley ballet flats. Like her, my head was a mass of frizzy curls. My hair had been pin-straight until puberty hit, when suddenly, I found myself topped with curls that I was completely unequipped to style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40234\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-51535435.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-40234\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-51535435-800x616.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, : Chelsea Clinton looks on with an unidentified friend from Stanford University 31 December 1999 at America's Millennium Opening Ceremony in Washington, DC. (Photo: JOYCE NALTCHAYAN/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-51535435-800x616.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-51535435-400x308.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-51535435-768x591.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-51535435-1440x1109.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-51535435-1920x1479.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-51535435-1180x909.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-51535435-960x739.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-51535435.jpg 2040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea serving curls with a side of side-eye. \u003ccite>(JOYCE NALTCHAYAN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In my Republican, evangelical Christian home, the Clintons were not celebrated, though never vilified (we were a \u003cem>PBS NewsHour\u003c/em> family in those idyllic days before Fox News). The same could not be said for our local megachurch. I once overheard a member of my parent’s bible study saying he felt sorry for the White House’s dog: “They should put that Chelsea down!” It took decades for me to learn \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124301/Chelsea-Clinton-tells-Rush-Limbaugh-fun-looks-13-comparing-dog.html\">that lovely bon mot originated with Rush Limbaugh\u003c/a> and not the gentleman who volunteered in the church’s youth group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, I wore my hair in a tight, slicked-back bun, a look that was not particularly flattering but at least wasn’t so up-for-debate. I slumped in oversized clothing and obsessed over my bad skin and crooked teeth. Then Blind Melon’s “No Rain” video came out and my chosen look went from bland-but-safe to 100% deadly when paired with my chubby face and thick glasses. I looked so much like the girl in the video, kids at school would come up and \"dance\" in front of me while pointing and laughing. Fun times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVPNONdF58\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching this year's DNC, those memories flooded back. I asked my friends on Facebook if they remembered Chelsea's experience in the media the same way I did. I didn’t anticipate that so many people from all walks of life and political persuasions would answer, \u003ci>Yes, I remember, and it was horrible\u003c/i>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"I was my most awkward at the same time and was teased mercilessly in school. [The media treatment of Chelsea] did a number on my confidence for sure. My battles with depression started at that age. My English teacher made fun of her. It was so disheartening to hear that as a girl.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"I was maybe 8, and the media called her a dog a lot. Like she was supposed to be a super attractive teen. I also had curly hair then and it kinda stuck.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"It mattered a lot to me that she was attacked for her looks. She looked like me! It was the first moment I really identified myself as a feminist and that hasn't changed.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"I remember her in my prom edition of \u003cem>Seventeen\u003c/em>. Several designers sketched dresses for her. I remember one of them said, 'Let your hair fly, you're a Democrat!' I thought that was so awesome; I still remember it nearly 20 years later!\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"I sent her a letter when I was a kid, telling her that I didn't like the mean people, and that I loved her curly hair.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Chelsea hasn't been caught curly since the early 2000s. Even now, for many women, taming your curls is considered a mark that you’ve arrived and you’ll play the game by the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-584445728.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-40232\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-584445728-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"PHILADELPHIA, PA - JULY 28: Chelsea Clinton arrives on stage to introduces her mother, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 28, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received the number of votes needed to secure the party's nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Philadelphia, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Democratic National Convention kicked off July 25.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-584445728-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-584445728-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-584445728-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-584445728-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-584445728-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-584445728-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/GettyImages-584445728-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chelsea's current sleek style has been praised as mature and polished, the message being that curly hair is for women who don't want to be taken seriously, women who are sloppy, wild, and childish. Let's not forget that curly hair is also \"ethnic\" hair; the straighter the hair (and the blonder the hair), the whiter the woman beneath it \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/08/25/why_are_female_ceos_and_senators_disproportionately_blond_blame_sexism.html\">and the more likely she'll get to a position of power.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/news/a27707/chelsea-clinton-may-2015/\">2015 interview with \u003cem>Elle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Clinton talked about her curls leaving her in her twenties. \"I don't know if [my curls] got tired of me, but [they] slowly subsided, and so now it's naturally a little bit wavy but... I miss my curls.\" (It happens. Mine are nowhere near as tight as they used to be, though I do start looking like a chrysanthemum if I visit the beach or New Orleans.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same interview, Clinton also speculated that her daughter may face the same scrutiny she once experienced. \"I'm curious if Charlotte's going to have curly hair... I should apologize to her now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chelsea Clinton can feel however she wants about her hair or her daughter's future hair. (The woman is already \u003ca href=\"http://www.vogue.com/13477531/chelsea-clinton-first-day-preschool/\">catching grief for having the temerity not to attend Charlotte's first day of school\u003c/a>.) But her comments make me ache for her. I hate that she looks at her child and thinks \u003cem>D\u003c/em>\u003ci>on't look like me,\u003c/i> but I also know how it feels to do just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've looked at my own curly-haired daughter and wondered if she'll be stricken with glasses, frizzy curls and a baby face. But really what I'm wondering is this: Will she be valued for more than her looks as she grows? When we look at our daughters and consider their looks, we may say \u003cem>D\u003c/em>\u003ci>on't look like me\u003c/i>. But what we really mean is \u003cem>D\u003c/em>\u003ci>on't hurt like me\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I also had curly hair then and it kinda stuck.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"It mattered a lot to me that she was attacked for her looks. She looked like me! It was the first moment I really identified myself as a feminist and that hasn't changed.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"I remember her in my prom edition of \u003cem>Seventeen\u003c/em>. Several designers sketched dresses for her. I remember one of them said, 'Let your hair fly, you're a Democrat!' I thought that was so awesome; I still remember it nearly 20 years later!\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"I sent her a letter when I was a kid, telling her that I didn't like the mean people, and that I loved her curly hair.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Chelsea hasn't been caught curly since the early 2000s. 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Dunbar-Ortiz, who also wrote \u003cem>An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States\u003c/em>, says when she travels around the country talking about Native issues, \"it's as if a light goes on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The truth is kind of depressing in a way, especially when you start talking about war and genocide and massacres,\" she said. \"But it's as if people have been wanting to have some clarity. I don't see how anyone ever learns anything accurate about Native Americans in our education system. Even the most recent, revised textbooks are just confusing. They leave so many holes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those holes are large and small, and include events, people, legislation, cultural movements, wars, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lakotacountrytimes.com/common/PastArchives/755.html\">massacres\u003c/a> and resistance. Many folks in the United States have no idea that there are 562 federally recognized Indian tribes in the country, let alone the unique histories of those tribes. We rarely read Native authors like \u003ca href=\"http://fallsapart.com/\">Sherman Alexie\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/leslie-marmon-silko\">Leslie Marmon Silko\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/Lucero/\">Evelina Zuni Lucero\u003c/a>, or celebrate athletes like \u003ca href=\"http://www.biography.com/people/maria-tallchief-9501522\">Maria Tallchief\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://mic.com/articles/93760/the-wnba-s-most-popular-jersey-belongs-to-a-native-american-trailblazer-you-ve-probably-never-heard-of#.NctUiOSdB\">Shoni Schimmel\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-are-jim-thorpes-olympic-records-still-not-recognized-130986336/?no-ist\">Jim Thorpe\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Americans don't learn much about the Seminole Wars, the \u003ca href=\"https://mettahu.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/the-effect-of-the-homestead-act-on-native-americans/\">impact of the Homestead Act\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://libguides.mnhs.org/aim\">American Indian Movement\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/government-settles-indian-trust-fund-suit\">the historic settlement of the Indian Trust Fund lawsuit\u003c/a>, and the ongoing debate over the \u003ca href=\"http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/07/20/still-waiting-cherokee-freedman-say-theyre-not-going-anywhere-161132\">Cherokee Freedmen\u003c/a>. We don't study the dozens of Supreme Court cases involving Native Americans spanning hundreds of years, about everything from \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues-july-dec11-blackhills_08-24/\">land rights\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/01/07/oliphant-decision-led-jurisdictional-issues-indian-reservations-70971\">tribal sovereignty\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/06/26/195787510/Supreme-Court-Sides-With-Adoptive-Family-In-Dispute\">adoption\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/112/94/case.html\">civil liberties\u003c/a>. We rarely acknowledge Native Americans as participants in broad American historical events and know precious little about the thousands of years of indigenous civilization that existed before European colonization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While stereotypes persist, both authors say there is a growing hunger for information about indigenous people. \"Americans know they've been lied to,\" Gilio-Whitaker said. \"People are understanding that now, and they're mad that they've been lied to, and they want the truth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unprecedented coalition of tribes resisting construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, Gilio-Whitaker says, offers a more accurate and contemporary understanding of Native Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We look at the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock and see what's happening, and how much support has poured out from the far reaches of the United States,\" she said. \"And I'd say that it's really different compared to, say, what happened at \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/wounded-knee\">Wounded Knee in 1973\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was a certain amount of support that came from non-Indians, for example with the Academy Awards and Marlon Brando making a public issue of that and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/godfather-ar3.html\">rejecting the Oscar \u003c/a>for \u003cem>The Godfather\u003c/em> based on his protest of Hollywood and the way it treats Natives. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/19/watch-the-four-best-political-moments-from-the-emmys/\">last month's Primetime Emmy Awards\u003c/a>, there was a lot of hubbub over a perceived shift -- a reconfiguration of the old guard -- in how we celebrate, spotlight, and create television. Things just felt different. People of color won all around. Queer women took home golden statuettes. Jeffrey Tambour of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transparent\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> gracefully advocated for the trans community, as did the show’s creator Jill Soloway, who urged us to “Topple the patriarchy.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But then, amid the clamor of hurrahs, came the inevitable questions: What next? Is the job done? Operation Diversity achieved? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enter Issa Rae, the star and co-creator of the new HBO comedy show, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Insecure\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Partially based on her homemade YouTube series and memoir, \u003ci>The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl\u003c/i>, \u003cem>Insecure\u003c/em> has already garnered significant critical praise, but its existence signals a specific and new turn in the growing wave of “diverse” projects gracing the small screen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MubTJyWukp8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Insecure\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> chronicles the life of 29-year-old Issa — a character who is, as you might imagine, predominantly based on Rae herself — as she navigates the struggles of living and working in South Los Angeles. Issa feels stuck in her relationship with her live-in boyfriend of five years and, at work, feels the need to fend off the tokenized blackness that colleagues assign her with an “aggressively passive” attitude. If the show’s title isn't foreshadowing enough, the pilot episode quickly establishes Issa as lovably self-pitying and seemingly teetering on a quarter-life crisis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The plot is simple and familiar enough — being awkward and aimless in your twenties in “X” metropolis. It seems to be the basis of countless (and often too many) shows in every new fall TV season. But it’s also the plainness of its premise that makes \u003cem>Insecure\u003c/em> feel so incredibly groundbreaking. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, color is flourishing on screen, compared to the one-dimensional, stereotypes of television of yore. But most of the current shows casting leads of color are given the go-ahead because of juicy-on-paper plot lines that are meant to ensure a viewing audience. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scandal\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> deals with a steamy affair with the President. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How to Get Away With Murder\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is full of plot-twisting murderous intrigue. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Empire\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> traces back-stabbing family politics in the bougie world of a music mogul. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The People v. OJ Simpson\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> recreated the drama of the “Trial of the Century.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile,\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Black-ish\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Carmichael Show\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fresh Off the Boat\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> find humor in the everyday but only according to the rules of the tried-and-true family sitcom, a television institution whose color barrier was broken decades earlier. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">None of this is an effort to reduce the significance of these shows — they will forever be the trailblazers, the “firsts” in forcing the \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">obsolescence \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of ethnic caricatures on screen. Every show with “diversity” that’s untainted by stereotypes helps end the perceived uniformity of blackness or brownness or Asian-ness. However, the notion of spotlighting non-white protagonists solely against gimmicky narrative backdrops seems to imply that audiences need to be enticed with fireworks to find interest in characters of color. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/detail.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-40715 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/detail-800x450.jpeg\" alt=\"issa rae insecure hbo\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/detail-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/detail-400x225.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/detail-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/detail-1180x664.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/detail-960x540.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/detail.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>Rae's show stands out for its depiction of colored ordinariness, or more importantly black female\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ordinariness. Because just as America has black music moguls, it also has funny, educated, and insecure black women just trying to figure things out. This type of narrative sparseness is an exercise in normalization and humanization, and ultimately a shift in how we give voice to color. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Insecure\u003c/em> is not about glitz and glam, or murder in cold blood. It's about a singular, basic human experience in a particular setting at a particular age — and one partially informed by blackness and black femininity. It's a show about nothing and everything, where humor is derived from poking fun at quotidian micro-aggressions and drama comes from universal anxieties. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s Issa trying to figure out what she's doing with her life. Or why her relationship feels stagnant. It’s also Issa having to put up with her well-meaning white boss, who rocks a dashiki while asking her what James Baldwin would do to help kids of color. Or her co-workers asking her, “What's on \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fleek\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> inevitable comparisons to its HBO counterpart \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Girls\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://mic.com/articles/23205/lena-dunham-girls-is-white-girl-feminism-at-its-worst#.DUW3So7h4\">tiresome, diminishing and reductive,\u003c/a> they're \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">still a signifier of progress. If a show about a black woman can be broadly categorized in the same genre as a show about four white women just existing in New York, while also being critically commended, that's a sign that representation is starting to level out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rae’s success is not entirely isolated. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tax records and literary criticism are strange bedfellows. But over the weekend, the two combined and brought into the world a literary controversy — call it the Ferrante Furor of 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To put it briefly:\u003c/em> Elena Ferrante, an admired and cherished Italian novelist, has always made it clear that her name is a pseudonym and her true identity is not for public consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claudio Gatti, an investigative journalist, used financial records to, as he put it, \"make a powerful case for Ferrante's true identity.\" The result was \u003ca href=\"http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/10/02/elena-ferrante-an-answer/\">published in the \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/10/02/elena-ferrante-an-answer/\">New York Review of Books\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>prompting uproar from writers and readers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To put it rather less briefly:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A translator put forward by Gatti has been named by Ferrante-truthers before, and is married to a man who has \u003cem>also \u003c/em>been proposed as a possible author. You may have heard her name on NPR before, when Christopher Livesay \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/09/01/436289199/in-new-neapolitan-novel-fans-seek-clues-about-mysterious-authors-past?ft=nprml&f=436289199\">reported\u003c/a> on the mystery of Ferrante's identity (without claiming to solve it, or arguing it ought to be solved).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferrante's publisher has always denied the alleged connection. But Gatti draws on tax records to make an unusually confident claim that the translator is the woman behind Ferrante's work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his piece, Gatti says that by suggesting she'd be willing to lie to protect her identity, \"Ferrante has in a way relinquished her right to disappear behind her books and let them live and grow while their author remained unknown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her willingness to protect her identity, he seems to argue, is justification to strip it bare. He also says her striking success makes the search for her name \"virtually inevitable,\" while the profits from her books leave financial clues that \"speak by themselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reaction of editors, writers and readers? Well, as long as we're talking about things that \"speak by themselves\" ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Katherine Angel, \u003ca href=\"http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2862-a-pound-of-flesh\">writing on Verso\u003c/a>, called Gatti's work \"a sorry reflection on literary journalism.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In \u003cem>The New Yorker,\u003c/em> Alexandra Schwartz \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-unmasking-of-elena-ferrante?mbid=social_twitter\">called Gatti himself\u003c/a> \"a puffed-up pedant straight out of Nabokov, right down to his Nabokovian name: Claudio the Cat, prowling around in search of secrets.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The editor of the \u003cem>Times Literary Supplement\u003c/em> — a highbrow literary review similar in stature to the NYRB — said \u003ca href=\"http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/tls-not-named-elena-ferrante/\">his publication would not have published Gatti's work\u003c/a>, and would instead have asked, \"what good does this do Elena Ferrante; what good does this do the \u003cem>TLS\u003c/em>; what good does this do the world at large? The answer is, resoundingly, too little on all counts. ... Gatti's is not an important work of journalism: intellectually, ethically or artistically. He didn't need to investigate this; and the \u003cem>NYRB\u003c/em> – and others – shouldn't have published it.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Keith Law, a book-loving baseball writer at ESPN, \u003ca href=\"http://meadowparty.com/blog/2016/10/03/the-doxing-of-elena-ferrante/\">called the piece\u003c/a> \"a malicious, tawdry exercise in placing money over integrity, the sort of yellow journalism we might expect from the Drudge Report or an alt-right site.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hannah Gold, writing for feminist blog Jezebel, \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/doxxing-elena-ferrante-will-get-you-nowhere-1787335159\">tersely summed up\u003c/a> the general tenor of the response: \"What the hell, guys?\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Not everyone was so critical. In the Washingtonian, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/10/03/nyrb-reveals-true-identity-of-elena-ferrante-which-is-justified/\">Amanda Whiting argued for the opposition\u003c/a>, making the lonely case that the NYRB was in the right to publish the alleged unmasking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the key point was the Ferrante has published an autobiographical work, \u003cem>Frantumaglia, \u003c/em>which is about to come out in English. \"There are discrepancies between the text of \u003cem>Frantumaglia\u003c/em> and the life of the person \u003cem>NYRB\u003c/em> says is its real author,\" Whiting writes. \"Readers are being asked to pay for this self-portrait ($13.21 on Amazon), with no warning that its finer details belong to a person who doesn't exist. ... This isn't as simple as a private woman being exposed against her will.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the overwhelming response to Gatti's piece fell on a spectrum from irritation to anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation invoked vast questions — from privacy in the modern age to to the very existence and role of the author. Gender dynamics were inevitably at play, given the persistent allegations that Ferrante's work is written by a man, and the fact that it was a man who felt the need to expose her identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was, too, a much smaller and sadder narrative — a sense of loss, of something beautiful and precious in Ferrante's preservation of a private self. A sense of something that may have been destroyed forever by, of all things, tax records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first literary \"unmasking,\" of course. The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/emilynussbaum/status/782723068632367104\">points out\u003c/a> journalist Nancy Jo Sales gave \"similar treatment\" to notoriously no-profile literary legend Thomas Pynchon, \u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/48268/#print\">tracking down his address\u003c/a> and trying to pry details out of his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And pseudonyms have been busted: Robert Galbraith was revealed to be J.K. Rowling in 2013, after a lawyer's wife's best friend leaked the secret. Rowling was \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/19/203548818/book-news-j-k-rowling-very-angry-that-law-firm-leaked-her-name\">\"very angry,\" in her own words\u003c/a>, at the unraveling of her choice to write free of fame, but general outcry over the leak was muted. Decades before, Richard Bachman \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/07/jk-rowling-was-robert-galbraith-stephen-king-was-richard-bachman/313311/\">was outed as Stephen King.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ferrante was something special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was fiercely protective of her identity — and said, again and again, that keeping her true name out of the spotlight was a central element of her writing process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most poignant and cutting rebuttals to Gatti's piece was a simple collection of quotations \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/03/elena-ferrante-in-her-own-words-to-relinquish-my-anonymity-would-be-very-painful?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter\">published by The Guardian\u003c/a> — comments from Ferrante over the years, on the value of her pseudonym.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She describes her secret identity as liberation, an act of independence, central to cultivating creative space. \"The writing becomes intimate,\" she told \u003cem>The Paris Review.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To relinquish it would be very painful,\" she told \u003cem>Vanity Fair.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferrante also told \u003cem>Vanity Fair\u003c/em> that her readers didn't seem to mind. They \"do not despair at all,\" she said. \"I receive letters of support for my little battle in favor of the centrality of the work. Evidently, for those who love literature, the books are enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Ferrante has always been fiercely beloved by her fans. And as the backlash to unmasking has made clear, most of her readers were far more fond of her mysteries than suspicious of her secrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dayna Tortorici described the author-and-audience relationship \u003ca href=\"https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/bluebeard/\">in literary journal n+1\u003c/a>: \"More than Ferrante herself, her readers have benefited from her choice, spared so much extradiegetic noise. We are as invested in her anonymity—and her autonomy—as she is. It is a compact: she won't tell us, we won't ask, and she won't change her mind and tell us anyway. 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Well, as long as we're talking about things that \"speak by themselves\" ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Katherine Angel, \u003ca href=\"http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2862-a-pound-of-flesh\">writing on Verso\u003c/a>, called Gatti's work \"a sorry reflection on literary journalism.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In \u003cem>The New Yorker,\u003c/em> Alexandra Schwartz \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-unmasking-of-elena-ferrante?mbid=social_twitter\">called Gatti himself\u003c/a> \"a puffed-up pedant straight out of Nabokov, right down to his Nabokovian name: Claudio the Cat, prowling around in search of secrets.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The editor of the \u003cem>Times Literary Supplement\u003c/em> — a highbrow literary review similar in stature to the NYRB — said \u003ca href=\"http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/tls-not-named-elena-ferrante/\">his publication would not have published Gatti's work\u003c/a>, and would instead have asked, \"what good does this do Elena Ferrante; what good does this do the \u003cem>TLS\u003c/em>; what good does this do the world at large? The answer is, resoundingly, too little on all counts. ... Gatti's is not an important work of journalism: intellectually, ethically or artistically. He didn't need to investigate this; and the \u003cem>NYRB\u003c/em> – and others – shouldn't have published it.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Keith Law, a book-loving baseball writer at ESPN, \u003ca href=\"http://meadowparty.com/blog/2016/10/03/the-doxing-of-elena-ferrante/\">called the piece\u003c/a> \"a malicious, tawdry exercise in placing money over integrity, the sort of yellow journalism we might expect from the Drudge Report or an alt-right site.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hannah Gold, writing for feminist blog Jezebel, \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/doxxing-elena-ferrante-will-get-you-nowhere-1787335159\">tersely summed up\u003c/a> the general tenor of the response: \"What the hell, guys?\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Not everyone was so critical. In the Washingtonian, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/10/03/nyrb-reveals-true-identity-of-elena-ferrante-which-is-justified/\">Amanda Whiting argued for the opposition\u003c/a>, making the lonely case that the NYRB was in the right to publish the alleged unmasking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the key point was the Ferrante has published an autobiographical work, \u003cem>Frantumaglia, \u003c/em>which is about to come out in English. \"There are discrepancies between the text of \u003cem>Frantumaglia\u003c/em> and the life of the person \u003cem>NYRB\u003c/em> says is its real author,\" Whiting writes. \"Readers are being asked to pay for this self-portrait ($13.21 on Amazon), with no warning that its finer details belong to a person who doesn't exist. ... This isn't as simple as a private woman being exposed against her will.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the overwhelming response to Gatti's piece fell on a spectrum from irritation to anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation invoked vast questions — from privacy in the modern age to to the very existence and role of the author. Gender dynamics were inevitably at play, given the persistent allegations that Ferrante's work is written by a man, and the fact that it was a man who felt the need to expose her identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was, too, a much smaller and sadder narrative — a sense of loss, of something beautiful and precious in Ferrante's preservation of a private self. A sense of something that may have been destroyed forever by, of all things, tax records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first literary \"unmasking,\" of course. The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/emilynussbaum/status/782723068632367104\">points out\u003c/a> journalist Nancy Jo Sales gave \"similar treatment\" to notoriously no-profile literary legend Thomas Pynchon, \u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/48268/#print\">tracking down his address\u003c/a> and trying to pry details out of his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And pseudonyms have been busted: Robert Galbraith was revealed to be J.K. Rowling in 2013, after a lawyer's wife's best friend leaked the secret. Rowling was \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/19/203548818/book-news-j-k-rowling-very-angry-that-law-firm-leaked-her-name\">\"very angry,\" in her own words\u003c/a>, at the unraveling of her choice to write free of fame, but general outcry over the leak was muted. 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