ADVERTISEMENT
Bull City in Wonderland
Alex Charns, editor (anthology)
Adult; General Fiction (including literary and historical); (Market)
On March 13, 2006, the tulips in Durham grew upside down. Then, White Duke Republicans became Black Duke Republicans. Democrats, oddly, did not change race. Lacrosse players turned into polo players. Yet, Coach K still coached basketball. Next, three Black Duke polo players fell down the Durham rabbit hole. The world, or part of it, was upside down.
QUERY: How does the so-called Duke lacrosse scandal change if the student athletes who were falsely charged were African-American and the strippers were White, instead of Black?
How do the Durham community, Duke professors, the media and local politicians react? Different? The same? Do the cops and prosecutor conspire to frame the students?
Now, shake it all up and throw in a polo pony . . .