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Americans Not Really So “Nice”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
24 Dec 2018
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”American Niceness” can be deeply anti-social, according to the author of a book by the same name. “It can create boundaries and walls, ways to keep people at bay” rather than welcome them into the common polity, said Carrie Bramen, author and professor of English at Buffalo State University.

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