Race among Friends by Marianne Modica

Author:Marianne Modica [Modica, Marianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Education, General, Multicultural Education, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Discrimination, Children's Studies
ISBN: 9780813573465
Google: tnSwCgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2015-11-10T05:24:35+00:00

Laura (white): He [Hughes] used Whitman’s poem because people understand the allusion. They can connect to it.

MM: What about Ron’s point that Whitman was talking about occupations, not races? Can we argue that he wasn’t thinking about people of other races?

Violet (African American): It’s inferred.

Juliette (African American): Because at that time African Americans weren’t shoemakers or woodcutters. They were on plantations or in the fields.

MM: So sometimes what’s left out of the text is as important as what’s included in the text. Because of the time Whitman’s poem was written, can we assume that he wasn’t including African Americans?

Laura: But I don’t think Walt Whitman was racist. He helped black people. He fed them in his kitchen.

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