November 9, 2007
How to Read a Noose
What are we to make of the noose as symbol in 21st-century America? The Washington Post reported on October 20 that there have been several "copycat" noose hangings since those in Jena, La., in 2006. The most widely publicized, in a front-page story in The New York Times, was a noose left on the doorknob of a black professor's office at Columbia University. But many other incidents have been reported.
As the Post put it: "Nooses have been looped over a tree at the University of
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