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The Origin of Others

(The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What mot

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“There are so many opportunities to reveal race in literature— whether one is conscious of it or not. But writing non-colorist literature about black people is a task I have found both liberating and hard.”

— Toni Morrison, amazon.com

Tagged: Race Bias, Race relations, Race and Ethnicity, Writing and Expression

“In other works, such as The Bluest Eye, the consequences of the color fetish are the theme: its severely destructive force.”

— Toni Morrison, amazon.com

Tagged: Race Bias, Race relations, Race and Ethnicity

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Race Bias, Race relations, Race and Ethnicity, Sexism

“One purpose of scientific racism is to identify an outsider in order to define one’s self. Another possibility is to maintain (even enjoy) one’s own difference without contempt for the categorized difference of the Othered.”

— Toni Morrison, amazon.com

Tagged: Race Bias, Race relations, Race and Ethnicity

“Race has been a constant arbiter of difference, as have wealth, class, and gender— each of which is about power and the necessity of control.”

— Toni Morrison, amazon.com

Tagged: Racism In America, racism, classism