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| Epigraphs at the beginnings of chapters tease the mind with Pawnee verse, the warnings of a Cheyenne chief, the autobiography of Luther Standing Bear, and the philosophy of Black Elk. For instance, a chapter titled "Measuring Mechanical Strength," which opens with two epigraphs about "developed" and "undeveloped" manhood, would surely benefit from further attention to the racial tropes of barbarity and civilization which upheld late nineteenth-century understandings of development. Thurman's own writings provide the following two epigraphs for this book: |
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