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So, Mrs. Palin, how does it feel to be a Problem?

September 3, 2008

W.E.B. DuBois has said, “being a problem is a strange experience…a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity…” Problems change, but race is still a problem. And […]

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Shelved with: Mind & Society
Tagged With: Women, W.E.B. Du Bois, Sarah Palin, Richard Harwood, Republicans, Race, Politics, John McCain, Gender, Election 2008, Civility, Alaska
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The Woman, the Problem, the Dream…and the Hope?

September 2, 2008

Some of our struggles: from Sojurner Truth, who asks, “Ain’t I a Woman?” From W.E.B. Du Bois, who asks, “How does it feel to be a Problem?” From Martin Luther King, Jr., who asks, “Can we bank on this dream?” And from Barack Obama, who claims that, “Yes, we can.”

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Shelved with: Mind & Society|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: W.E.B. Du Bois, Women, Sojurner Truth, Rhetoric, Race, Martin Luther King, Juan Galis-Menendez, Jr., Gender, Drew Hansen, Community, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, America, Alice Walker
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