Penn Press Log

A View from Third Base?–Historian Karen Ferguson on Cory Booker and the Legacy of Racial Liberalism

11/01/2013

Booker’s concurrent troubles in leading Newark and success as a political celebrity demonstrate how the rise of elite black figures in America is not the culmination of the fight for racial equality, as the story is often told, but is rather the consummation of an elite white strategy begun in the late 1960s to bring exceptional African Americans into the highest echelons of American culture and society with few benefits for those left behind.

A Seasonal Medieval Tajine

10/31/2013

It was also relatively easy to assemble and prepare using ingredients that were local and seasonal in Philadelphia—a wonderful find for a recipe that was invented in another century across the globe!