On IntegrationNot only was Harold Cruse dubious about the plausibility of eradicating prejudice from the souls of whites, but he believed that such a project—inevitably focused on interracial settings and the individuals who inhabit them—was of little concrete use to the largely unintegrated communities who were, and still are, paying the steepest price for the country’s discriminatory history.
DismissalOnce we recognize the emancipatory and egalitarian dimensions of the Cultural Revolution, the problem becomes more difficult, not less.
Lovers in the Hands of a Patient GodIt was hard for me to believe, at first, that spiritual debates in the American colonies, say, or the conventions of mass-market storytelling could tell me anything about my love life. But they did. How had I missed it?
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