Archive for August, 2009

  • Participation and Maintenance in Cultural Belonging and Development

    Participation and Maintenance in Cultural Belonging and Development

    For our consideration: “A third possibility is that we can value a culture because we have participated in its maintenance or development. Here we value it because its reproduction is a product of our efforts. So, for example, by participating in black rhetorical repartee – what...

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  • What Do We Want?

    What Do We Want?

    “What do we want? What is the thing we are after? As it was phrased last night it had a certain truth: We want to be Americans, full-fledged Americans, with all the rights of other American citizens. But is that all? Do we want simply...

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