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Thank you to the author Percival Everett for the rights to this story.

“Since telling the South Carolina State Legislature in 1989 that I couldn’t continue my address because of the presence of such a conspicuous sign of exclusion [the confederate flag], I have not really considered South Carolina.” —Percival Everett  

"The Appropriation of Cultures" is Everett's wickedly subversive story, about symbols and their meanings.

Percival Everett is the Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of nearly thirty books, including Erasure and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. Recipient of many awards, among them the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Dos Passos Prize, the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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