Charles Eliot Norton Lectures: The Origin of Others (Hardcover)

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My Takeaway"How does one become a racist, a sexist? Since no one is born a racist and there is no fetal predisposition to sexism, one learns Othering not by lecture or instruction but by example."Toni Morrison, The Origin of OthersWhat is race and why does it matter? What triggers in humans the t...

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This not a novel. It is not even, strictly speaking, a non-fiction book. It is an attempt to tie together six descrete lectures given by Morrison at Harvard in 2016. The Norton Lectures have hosted both some famous and some obscure members of the class of "belle letters." Morrison was invited to ...

from debbiesbooknook

My Takeaway"How does one become a racist, a sexist? Since no one is born a racist and there is no fetal predisposition to sexism, one learns Othering not by lecture or instruction but by example."Toni Morrison, The Origin of OthersWhat is race and why does it matter? What triggers in humans the t...

from kaulsu

This not a novel. It is not even, strictly speaking, a non-fiction book. It is an attempt to tie together six descrete lectures given by Morrison at Harvard in 2016. The Norton Lectures have hosted both some famous and some obscure members of the class of "belle letters." Morrison was invited to ...