Revisiting “Cliches and Abstractions” in the Context of Race, 2014
Writing in 1949 in the wake of World War II, Lou LaBrant opens a consideration of cliche and abstractions by focusing on a student essay, in which the student discussed her assumptions instead of the text she was examining: Only after inch-by-inch progress was she able to see that from “orphan,” for which the novelist was undoubtedly responsible, my student had jumped to the whole cliche “poor, de
Analysis of Cliches and Abstractions (1949)
Analysis of Cliches and Abstractions (1949).
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the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): American Hustle: Ignoring Poverty in U.S. Needs More than 50-Year AnniversaryIt is 2014, and publications such as Education Week are offering 50th-year anniversary looks at the War on Poverty. It is 2014, and race and racism remain words that shall not be spoken, lingeri