Kamala Harris’s favorite lit reveals a woman engaging in foundational exploration, especially regarding race and gender.
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Harris’s Literary Favs Reveal a Vibrant Soul
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Butler & Grappling with White Privilege
The figure of the white husband in Octavia Butler’s “Kindred” captures many of the blind spots of white privilege. Examining him led me to examine how I myself have benefitted from America’s slave past.
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Why Baltimore Blacks Are Down and Out
Black poverty in Baltimore has racial causes that are invisible to most people. Dickens would understand.
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Defeating the White Whale of Race Hatred
With a little imagination, “Moby Dick” can be dramatized as a story about race relations.
Trapped in Race Narratives
It’s not everyday that an affair involving an English professor is the hottest topic in the national news. In this case, the Professor Henry Louis Gates/Officer James Crowley incident, where America’s leading black intellectual was mistaken for an intruder and arrested in his own home, trumped even the health care debate. The fact that […]
Empowering Conversations about Race
As I look back over this past week of entries, what conclusions can I draw? First, that literature can serve the cause of race relations in this country. The friendship between Huck and Jim spurred my dreams of black-white friendship when I was a child being raised in segregated schools in the south, and it […]
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