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University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The day after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, Jane Elliott, a third-grade schoolteacher in rural Iowa, tried out a shocking experiment to show the scorching impact of racism on children. Elliott separated her students according to the color of their eyes. Those with brown eyes would lord over those with blue eyes. The brown-eyed students were given permission to heckle and berate the blue-eyed students, even to start fights with them. The...
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Series
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"HOW TO GO MAD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND questions long-standing Eurocentric accounts of psychopathology and describes the way art and madness connect in Black life. La Marr Jurelle Bruce uses a method of radical compassion, or radical care, to read the actions of Black artists and creatives. He seeks to understand their motives not simply as individual pathology but as sociocultural event and effect which makes itself evident as Black radical creativity....
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