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Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “How to Make a White Girl Disappear,” on a white girl who went missing after she was attacked by a black girl and forced to lick a public bathroom floor at a Massachusetts high school last month. (more…)
Image by Mashpee Police Department
Image by Mashpee Police Department
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The tiny town of Mashpee, Massachusetts is nestled on the hook-shaped peninsula of Cape Cod, which was named by an English explorer way back in 1602. Mashpee lies about 39 miles south of Plymouth, Massachusetts, where English Pilgrim settlers first celebrated the distinctly American tradition of Thanksgiving in 1621. Mashpee lies about 30 miles north of Martha’s Vineyard, which is perhaps most famous as the setting for the 1975 film Jaws, in which a great white shark ate a series of great white people. According to the most recent US Census stats, Mashpee is 87.6% white and only 2.5% black. (more…)