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Alain Locke su Identità e Diritti Umani
Of Alain Locke, Martin Luther King Jr. said: “We’re going to let our children know that the only philosophers that lived were not Plato and Aristotle, but W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke came through the universe.” In this article we explore an idea in the work of Alain Locke – the idea that identity and oppression are related to each other. That the pathway to emancipation is through re-imagining our identity. Early on he explored these themes in the introduction he wrote to his 1925 anthology titled “The New Negro“. The tribute above, particularly from Martin Luther King, calls for greater attention to Alain Locke’s philosophy and…
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La Lettera da Leo
Leo was worried. He had crossed an ocean and fled a continent as it fell under the power of a new and terrible tyrant. But the ocean was not wide enough. And he was afraid. Soon, the tyrant might have a weapon to which there would be no answer. Leo, you see, worked with the tiniest, most invisible of things. And he had discovered that they could be linked together in a daisy chain of death. Or power. And in it he thought he also saw a crown for human knowledge. But others, across the ocean, also knew of the discovery. So Leo worried. And Leo went to see his…
