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In Support of Affirmative Action
par Randall Kennedy,
publié le 06/02/2014
- There are several good justifications for racial affirmative action in a society that has long been a pigmentocracy in which white people have been privileged and people of color oppressed. Affirmative action can ameliorate debilitating scars left by past racial mistreatment – scars (such as educational deprivation) that handicap racial minorities as they seek to compete with whites who have been free of racial subordination. Affirmative action can also counter racially prejudiced misconduct. True, an array of laws supposedly protect people in America from racial mistreatment. But these laws are notoriously under-enforced...
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Minorities and democracy
par Siddhartha Deb,
publié le 17/01/2014
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In 1916, the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore delivered a series of lectures that would eventually be collected into the book, Nationalism. Tagore was writing in the glow of his own celebrity (he had just won the Nobel Prize for literature) and from within the heart of the crisis engulfing the modern world, two years into the slow, grim war that had converted Europe into a labyrinth of trenches covered over with clouds of poison gas. For Tagore, this was the tragic but inevitable outcome of a social calculus that valued efficiency, profit and, especially, the spirit of us versus them that bonded together the inhabitants of one nation and allowed them to go out, conquer and enslave other people, most of them members of no nation at all.
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Langston Hughes : poète jazz, poète blues
par Frédéric Sylvanise,
publié le 21/02/2011
- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) fait partie de ces poètes qui ont nourri leur travail de l'exploration d'autres arts, en l'occurrence de la musique et des arts plastiques. Omniprésente dans des pans entiers de sa carrière, la musique n'a pas fait office chez lui de simple source d'inspiration, mais d'une sorte de matrice à un travail d'alchimie : déplacer les rythmes du jazz ou du blues vers le territoire poétique, c'est-à-dire « adapter » le langage musical au langage poétique.
