{"id":14379,"date":"2014-11-26T11:42:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T16:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=14379"},"modified":"2014-11-26T12:01:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:01:23","slug":"anatomy-of-violence-a-prophetic-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/11\/anatomy-of-violence-a-prophetic-blast-from-the-past.html","title":{"rendered":"‘Anatomy of Violence,’ a Prophetic Blast from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

An article in the Washington Post<\/a> declares that the riots in Ferguson have been “the most significant explosions of racial frustration since the election of the nation\u2019s first black president, and so Ferguson forced the country out of the fantasy that America had entered a ‘post-racial’ era.” I’m not sure who really entertained that fantasy outside of the politicians and other public figures who needed to promote it and the pundits who were willing to go along with it. But Ferguson brought to mind this prophetic blast from the past — a 1967 gathering in London with Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, Allen Ginsberg, Stokely Carmichael, Emmett Grogan, and others — about racism and violence.<\/p>\n

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