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Ian Frazier

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Suffering, Grace and Redemption: How The Bronx Came to Be

On the early history of New York City's northernmost borough.

by Ian Frazier via Literary Hub on September 6, 2024
The Plunder and the Pity

Alicia Puglionesi explores the damage white supremacy did to Native Americans and their land.

by Ian Frazier via New York Review of Books on January 18, 2024
‘Part of Why We Survived’

Is there something in particular about coming from a Native background that makes a person want to write and perform comedy?

by Ian Frazier via New York Review of Books on December 23, 2021
When W.E.B. Du Bois Made a Laughing Stock of a White Supremacist

Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.

by Ian Frazier via The New Yorker on August 19, 2019
The Missouri River Flood Hits a Historic Native American Homeland

In the wake of devastating floods, one writer reflects on the importance of place to Great Plains Indians.

by Ian Frazier via The New Yorker on April 3, 2019
Legacy of a Lonesome Death

Had Bob Dylan not written a song about it, the 1963 killing of a black servant by a white socialite’s cane might have been long forgotten.

by Ian Frazier via Mother Jones on May 8, 2010

Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough

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An apartment building on fire.

Did Racial Capitalism Set the Bronx on Fire?

To some, the fires lit in New York in the late seventies signaled rampant crime; to others, rebellion. But maybe they were signs of something else entirely.

by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on August 18, 2025

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