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By the time the Flyers opened the play-off series against the Boston Bruins last week, they had made themselves into one of the most despised teams in sport. With at least four players whose major talent seems to be assault and battery against the opposition, the Flyers have introduced...
The movie Conroy has no such qualms. In the film's most egregious invention, he hires a sound truck to tour white districts, lecturing about his grievances and their indifference. At which point the movie's insistence on reducing a complex character to a single, simple-minded dimension...
Kilson's neglect of the existential dimension of black culture leads him to ignore the acceleration of the process of ethnicization in modern society aided by the advent of post-industrial society. This new stage of modernity demands existential response. For most blacks, this existential response is expressed by new...
But this new self-definition and self-assertiveness of blacks must more fully enter the functional dimension. For too many black students, "blackness" is defined solely within the ritualistic sphere; that is, being one with the Black Geist deals only on the symbolic level. Black cultural uniqueness must be preserved...
The inane criticisms of Kilson's analysis have consistently ignored the functional/existential dualism in black culture and thus, ironically, provide tacit admission to the strength of Kilson's position. They intuitively sense the lack of the existential dimension in his analysis, but they fail to analytically account for it. Why...