EDST 391-083
Color-Blind Nation: Worthy or Worthless
Ideal?
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"Daily Assignment"
P/F Writing Assignment for Day 15
Readings:- Loury ("Achieving the 'Dream'") {ER}
- Asante ("Racism, consciousness, and Afrocentricity") {ER}
-
Kaufman ("Prison life is all around..."--recommended only)
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Loury criticizes both liberals and conservatives
for their approach to racial inequality. He also seems to scoff at both
sides for claiming to be the true heirs of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s,
moral legacy. He charges both with avoiding responsibility, although in
different ways, for
improving the wretched
circumstances that afflict all too many black citizens.
- What are the moral challenges that Loury sees facing each of
these parties to the crisis--
liberals, conservatives, and
individual blacks?
- Freedom is a core issue for Loury. In his view, by what
means do blacks attain--or risk forfeiting--"genuine
freedom"?