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Monica Patrice Barra

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Posted on March 18, 2015September 12, 2015

Racism, structure, and spectacle

Norman, Oklahoma came into my world four years ago. As my partner's hometown, I've spent more time than I ever would have dreamed shuttling in and out of Will Rogers Airport and around the highways of Oklahoma. And I was there just a few days before the video of the now infamous spectacle of SAE …

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Posted on July 9, 2012July 11, 2012

Oklahoma in black, white, and sepia

  Over the past few days I have been digging through the photo albums of a couple from eastern Oklahoma who have been married - as of July 10th - for 75 years. No small achievement, the couple is 95 and 97 years old now, and still up and about. I digitized several of their …

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