Re: "certain codes of conduct"
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thompnickson2 on
Jul 29, 2020; 3:43am
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Merle,
So, one of the things that French painting teachers have students do is copy great works. So let’s imagine, for a moment, that women of color write differently from Old White Guys. So, in a “post racial “English” class, should we have all students do a few assignments adopting the writing styles of different minority subgroups? (As well as reading them?) Would that be a step you would recommend?
Are there any general principles of rhetoric – clarity, conciseness, vividness, coherence, logic – that survive in a post-racial university. What the heck do those look like? This is NOT a rhetorical question.
Nick
Nicholas Thompson
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Clark University
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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 <[hidden email]> 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
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.
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