From a Dream to Racial Justice in Seattle
Glenn Harris, the Race and Social Justice Initiative Manager for the City of Seattle, explains how centering race in discussions about urban planning can make our cities better for all residents. Read more here.
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“If you are white in the United States, almost everyone in a position of power or influence looks like you.”
“Literary history, at least as far as race in America is concerned, is stuck, and the doctrine of separate but equal has to be overturned again and again, with every book published. If the doctrine were dead, then it would be common knowledge that Robert Hayden is at least as remarkable a poet as Robert Lowell, or that the Hugheses—Ted and Langston—run about even; or that it would be ignorant of a young poet to study Elizabeth Bishop to the exclusion of Rita Dove, or vice versa. It would also finally be possible to assess the claim that Amiri Baraka’s work—his early work as LeRoi Jones, anyway—outdoes them all.”
