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Inbox One Way To View the South

By Norman Ravitch *62
Published online January 25, 2022
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In Response to: Imani Perry, Professor of African American Studies, Recenters the American South

For only the second time since 1958 I saw Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I think it was a brilliant movie, even if the homosexuality in [the play] was barred at the time. I think you can learn a great deal about the South from just this flick!

Norman Ravitch *62
Savannah, Ga.

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