[FRIAM] "certain codes of conduct"

[Merle Lefkoff]

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 <wimberly3 at gmail.com> 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
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