[FRIAM] "certain codes of conduct"

Merle Lefkoff merlelefkoff at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 23:21:08 EDT 2020


And why, O Eric of a deep understanding, are you not a fan?

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 8:17 PM Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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