Merle,
So, one of the things that French painting teachers have students do is copy great works. So let’s imagine, for a moment, that women of color write differently from Old White Guys. So, in a “post racial “English” class, should we have all students do a few assignments adopting the writing styles of different minority subgroups? (As well as reading them?) Would that be a step you would recommend? Are there any general principles of rhetoric – clarity, conciseness, vividness, coherence, logic – that survive in a post-racial university. What the heck do those look like? This is NOT a rhetorical question. Nick Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> thompnicks...@gmail.com <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 9:24 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] "certain codes of conduct" Not The Invisible Man. On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 9:17 PM Merle Lefkoff <merlelefk...@gmail.com <mailto:merlelefk...@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 <wimber...@gmail.com <mailto:wimber...@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 --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. Center for Emergent Diplomacy emergentdiplomacy.org <http://emergentdiplomacy.org> Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA mobile: (303) 859-5609 skype: merle.lelfkoff2 twitter: @Merle_Lefkoff - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918
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