title: Heirs to Dirty Linen and Harlem Ghosts: Whitewashing Prohibition with Black Soap
author: Theda Palmer Saxton
description: Theda Palmer Saxton, PhD is a professor of Cultural and Interpersonal Communication. She has taught at Howard University in Washington DC and Pace University in New York City. She is also the author of The Seasoned Woman Speaks and co-owner of Bill's Place in Harlem.
zlib_text: SKitty
  
  :Nasty,: SKitty complained in Dick's head. She wrapped herself a little closer
  around his shoulders and licked drops of oily fog from her fur with a faint
  mew of distaste. :Smelly.:
  
  Dick White had to agree. The portside district of Lacu'un was pretty unsavory;
  the dismal, foggy weather made it look even worse. Shabby, cheap, and ill-
  used.
  
  Every building here—all twenty of them!—was offworld design; shoddy prefab,
  mostly painted in shades of peeling grey and industrial green, with garish
  neon-bright holosigns that were (thank the Spirits of Space!) mostly tuned
  down to faintly colored ghosts in the daytime. There were six bars, two
  gambling-joints, one chapel run by the neo-Jesuits, one flophouse run by the
  Reformed Salvation Army, five government buildings, four stores, and once
  place better left unnamed. They had all sprung up, like diseased fungus, in
  the year since the planet and people of Lacu'un had been declared Open for
  trade. There was nothing native here; for that y