Category Archives: Diversity & Multiculturalism
Remembering London – Part 5: Fear the “Urine”
Early morning, August 17, 2014. An email from Mr. Andrew Keen tells me of the passing of Rochfort Young. He and Peter Knowles were my compatriots at Table 17 in the dining room of Vincent House, the Notting Hill residential … Continue reading
The Black Chicago Renaissance
In the opening line of her introduction to The Black Chicago Renaissance, Darlene Clark Hine writes that “beginning in the 1930’s and lasting into the 1950’s, black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that rivaled and, some argue, exceeded the cultural … Continue reading
Against Pure Purity – Part 2
This is Part 2 of an essay I gave as a talk at a philosophy & religion conference in Kolkata, India, August 2002. I sought to apply new ideas about Indian novelist Raja Rao to multicultural and political issues then … Continue reading