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“We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other – male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so very often do I. But none of us can do anything about it. James Baldwin, “Here Be Dragons”
― Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society
― Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society
“True equality cannot be left to the whims of an electorate -- is the predicate for democracy and the vote, not their product.”
― Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
― Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
“Because as Europe and the United States become more diverse, it creates an anxiety, a racial anxiety, that is reflected in declining support for public space, public institutions, public infrastructure, and public education.”
― Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society
― Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society
“We present a four-part definition of belonging rooted in inclusion, recognition or visibility, a sense of connection, and empowerment, and share examples how these elements have been realized in practice. We call for a culture that embraces the practice of “bridging,” and offer guidance on how to do this effectively.”
― Belonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World
― Belonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World
“Every effort to extend equality into the heart of American citizenship, to erase the race line drawn by Chief Justice Taney, and to enlarge the "we" who belong to the American project continues the work of overturning Dred Scott.
Also implicated is the extent to which these questions can be left to democratic majorities or even empowered pluralities. Indeed, the doctrine of popular sovereignty would have left these questions to a vote. But true equality cannot be left to the whims of an electorate--it is the predicate for democracy and the vote, not their product. This, too, is a lesson from the period of the late 1850s: that a constitution or declaration constitutes the "we," and that this act of constituting structures all other distributive decisions and identity itself. Thus, who we are, and who belongs, is the most fundamental question that we have ever asked or can ever ask. We are still struggling to get the answer to this question right. We are still coming up short.”
― Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Also implicated is the extent to which these questions can be left to democratic majorities or even empowered pluralities. Indeed, the doctrine of popular sovereignty would have left these questions to a vote. But true equality cannot be left to the whims of an electorate--it is the predicate for democracy and the vote, not their product. This, too, is a lesson from the period of the late 1850s: that a constitution or declaration constitutes the "we," and that this act of constituting structures all other distributive decisions and identity itself. Thus, who we are, and who belongs, is the most fundamental question that we have ever asked or can ever ask. We are still struggling to get the answer to this question right. We are still coming up short.”
― Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
