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An Alternative to Antiracism

JL;DR SUMMARY The piece critiques the prevalent antiracism approach in diversity work, emphasizing its potential overemphasis on victimhood and identity conflicts. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityIntersectionalityDiversityIdentity PoliticsAmericaAntiracismHorace KallenCultural PluralismHarlem RenaissanceAlain Locke

Places mentioned

New York, United States
"...helped to found the New School for Social Research in New York."
Washington, D.C., Washington DC, United States
"Locke, an on-again-off-again professor at Howard University, edited and wrote the introduction for The New Negro, a book considered by many to be the definitive text of the Harlem Renaissance."
Indonesia
"...claiming that he was a secret Muslim who had been born in Indonesia."
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
"In the fall of 1907, when studying at Oxford as the first black Rhodes Scholar, Alain Locke was, on account of his race, not invited by the other Rhodes Scholars to the Thanksgiving meal held by the American Club at Oxford."
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
"...served as a professor at the University of WisconsinMadison and helped to found the New School for Social Research in New York."
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"In a talk he gave in 1907 to a black church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Locke said,"
Harlem, New York, United States
"Locke loved Harlem because it was a gathering place for black people from across the world, everywhere from the rural South to Europe to the West Indies."

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