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John Edwin Mason

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Democracy of Speed

Eighteen years of photographs at a Virginia dragstrip show a multiracial community united by their love of fast cars.

by John Edwin Mason via The Bitter Southerner on June 9, 2020
These Photos Will Change the Way You Think About Race in Coal Country

The myth that Appalachia is uniformly White lingers, but communities of “Affrilachians” were documented in the 1930s.

by John Edwin Mason via YES! on March 15, 2018
National Geographic Has Always Depended on Exoticism

With its race issue, the magazine is trying a different direction. Can it escape its past?

by Rebecca Onion, John Edwin Mason via Slate on March 14, 2018

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Artistic rendering of a sheet of newspaper with people crossed out, flowing above people working menial jobs whose heads are also crossed out, working next to signs that read "Sorry."

On Atonement

News outlets have apologized for past racism. That should only be the start.

by Alexandria Neason via Columbia Journalism Review on January 28, 2021

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