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“Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.”
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
two questions orient the arc of this book. First, how should we diagnose and conceptualize the temporal domination of racial injustice? Second, if we have internalized this form of life then with what resources can we develop principles for a transformed and free form of life that we have never experienced? These two questions bind together “critical theory” and “utopia” to develop both a novel account of injustice and the principles of a not yet experienced freedom.
Race, Time, and Utopia
William M. Paris
Many times, the best ideas come from two sources: Looking for gaps in the present structure. Looking for intersections.
The Lifetime Learner's Guide to Reading and Learning
Gary Hoover
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