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An Alternative to Antiracism

Summarizing Sapir · Published Thursday, April 3, 2025
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JL;DR SUMMARY The article critiques the modern antiracism movement, arguing that its focus on power dynamics and self-victimization is counterproductive and may lead to negative mental health outcomes. 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 Culture  Intersectionality  Diversity  Cultural Identity  Identity Politics  Antiracism  Horace Kallen  Cultural Pluralism  African American Culture  Alain Locke 

Places mentioned

Madison, Wisconsin, United States
"Kallen helped launch a Jewish campus movement called the Menorah Association, served as a professor at the University of WisconsinMadison and helped to found the New School for Social Research in New York."
New York, United States
"Kallen helped launch a Jewish campus movement called the Menorah Association, served as a professor at the University of WisconsinMadison and helped to found the New School for Social Research in New York."
Indonesia
"Obama finally released his birth certificate and said, for the umpteenth time, that while he respected Islam and Indonesia, he was a Christian who had been born in the United States."
United States
"Walking in a local museum, I pointed out to my children the names of the Jewish benefactors, to highlight to them that the Jewish contribution to America has been for the benefit of all Americans, not just Jewish Americans."
Oxford, Oxfordshire, 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."
Egypt
"A true cultural pluralist, Locke studied everything from the Coptic Christian minority in Egypt to the Italian Renaissance, and employed it all in shaping his model of what a distinctive African-American arts tradition could be."
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"In a talk he gave in 1907 to a black church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Locke said,"
Massachusetts, United States
"In a talk he gave in 1907 to a black church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Locke said,"
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
"In those talks, later published in an influential volume titled A Pluralistic Universe, James argued against the eras dominant philosophical view that the universe was singular and hung together in a unidimensional way."
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
"Their concertos could become jazz, deeply influenced by New Orleans, and their symphonies blues: the rich, soul-filled music that binds together old threads into a new, multifaceted national tapestry. Theyd recall history, for better and worse, to produce new sound collages."

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