Clearly the implicit bias is that all of these reading requirements were written by White men. In an attempt to redress this problem I have noticed lately that the NY Times book review seems to be bending over backwards to review books written by women of color.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 7:03 PM Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to remember my freshman English class. Every other Friday we > had to submit a five hundred word essay on the class readings. On alternate > Fridays we had to write an in-class paragraph or two on those readings. > The readings included the following: > > Catcher in the Rye by Salinger > Victory by Conrad > The Republic by Plato > All the King's Men by Warren > Brave New World by Huxley > > Numerous essays on personal integrity by various authors. > > I don't see that any of those had to do with unconscious racism or > implicit bias unless the personal integrity essays did. I think I had to > read The Invisible Man by Ellison but that may have been in a later year in > a political science or US history class at Berkeley. > > All this was 54 years ago. > > Frank > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. Center for Emergent Diplomacy emergentdiplomacy.org Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA mobile: (303) 859-5609 skype: merle.lelfkoff2 twitter: @Merle_Lefkoff
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