Somewhat on subject, back in about 1970 or 1971, I took a course on black lit. The instructor was a brilliant but quirky white man married to a black woman. I had taken another course from him the semester prior and I recall the words trite and cliched in his critique of one of my papers.
We talked of what it was to be a man, and his relationship to his family and how or if the black experience was unique. We read Treblinka (the story of Jews escaping a prison camp) and Native Son, a book I will never forget.
This was not about just about liberalism, as we dug in and touched a nerve that is still sensitive regarding the black man and his role as patriarch, still such a relevant issue today.
What discussions. This, to me, is a large part of what higher education is all about, learning to see from other's eyes and learning to see the world from less of a parochial view-something Fox viewers might have a problem with. As Will McAvoy said on the Newsroom, to be a Republican today, I have to deny facts, think scientific research is a long-con and I have to have such a stunning inferiority complex that I fear education and intellect. _________________ "A metronome keeps time by using a Ringo"
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 10:26 am Post subject:
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Somewhat on subject, back in about 1970 or 1971, I took a course on black lit. The instructor was a brilliant but quirky white man married to a black woman. I had taken another course from him the semester prior and I recall the words trite and cliched in his critique of one of my papers.
We talked of what it was to be a man, and his relationship to his family and how or if the black experience was unique. We read Treblinka (the story of Jews escaping a prison camp) and Native Son, a book I will never forget.
This was not about just about liberalism, as we dug in and touched a nerve that is still sensitive regarding the black man and his role as patriarch, still such a relevant issue today.
What discussions. This, to me, is a large part of what higher education is all about, learning to see from other's eyes and learning to see the world from less of a parochial view-something Fox viewers might have a problem with. As Will McAvoy said on the Newsroom, to be a Republican today, I have to deny facts, think scientific research is a long-con and I have to have such a stunning inferiority complex that I fear education and intellect.
Native on was a great book. Its main shortcoming, in my opinion, is that Bigger displays some sociopathic tendencies which aren't reflective of a normal person. _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 11:01 am Post subject:
For anyone interested in early race relations I suggest something like Two Princes Of Calabar for a quick read or Final Passages:The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America if you want something meaty. What's also good is Winthrop Jordan's White Over Black.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 11:17 am Post subject:
CandyCanes wrote:
ribeye wrote:
Somewhat on subject, back in about 1970 or 1971, I took a course on black lit. The instructor was a brilliant but quirky white man married to a black woman. I had taken another course from him the semester prior and I recall the words trite and cliched in his critique of one of my papers.
We talked of what it was to be a man, and his relationship to his family and how or if the black experience was unique. We read Treblinka (the story of Jews escaping a prison camp) and Native Son, a book I will never forget.
This was not about just about liberalism, as we dug in and touched a nerve that is still sensitive regarding the black man and his role as patriarch, still such a relevant issue today.
What discussions. This, to me, is a large part of what higher education is all about, learning to see from other's eyes and learning to see the world from less of a parochial view-something Fox viewers might have a problem with. As Will McAvoy said on the Newsroom, to be a Republican today, I have to deny facts, think scientific research is a long-con and I have to have such a stunning inferiority complex that I fear education and intellect.
Native on was a great book. Its main shortcoming, in my opinion, is that Bigger displays some sociopathic tendencies which aren't reflective of a normal person.
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