Author Archives: Reggie Marra

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash This essay is adapted from Chapter Eight of Healing America’s Narratives: the Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow — Now available.¹ Both beyond and within the narratives explored in the first five essays in this series — selected excerpts from the histories of women, Native Americans, African Americans, the VietnamContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: And That’s Not All”

Photo (c) Associated Press [Part of a series, this essay is adapted from Chapter Seven of Healing America’s Narratives: the Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow — Now available] In September 2003, six months after the U. S. began bombing Iraq again, Jonathan Schell wrote a long, crystal-clear sentence, employing some 250 words and quite aContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Lessons Not Learned”

Photo © by Ryan Stone on Unsplash [Part of a series, this essay is adapted from Chapter Six of Healing America’s Narratives: the Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow (available October 2022)] Decades before the 2003 U. S. invasion of Iraq, the United States invaded Vietnam — initially with “advisors” and eventually with bombs, troops,Continue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Dominos, Defoliation, Death, & Democracy”

Photo © by Robin Jonathan Deutsch on Unsplash [Part of a series, this essay is adapted from Chapter Five of Healing America’s Narratives: the Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow (October 2022)] In the conventional history of the United States, we tend not to hear or read too much about the actual moments of invasionContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Slavery, Civil Rights, and Whose Lives Matter”

Photo © by Boston Public Library on Unsplash [Part of a series adapted from Healing America’s Narratives: the Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow (October 2022). This essay is an overview that scratches the surface of Chapter Four of the book.] Some five-hundred-plus years ago, European explorers began bumping into land masses now known asContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Trails of Tears and Broken Treaties”

Photo © by Katherine Hanlon on Unsplash  [Part of a series, this essay is adapted from Chapter Three of Healing America’s Narratives: the Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow (October 2022)] True for a boy as well, a girl born in 1774, 1862, 1917, 1963, 1971, 2001, 2017, 2022,* or any other year received culturalContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Fear of the Feminine & the Subjugation of Women”