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...same kind of unconscious, unreasoned racism that prevents other departments from finding 'well-qualified' black professors pervades the psyche of Euro-Americans so deeply, that most white students do not ever even consider taking an Afro-Am course," Cudjoe said...
...clarify. Here was an anthology which was used by most of the universities and colleges of the USA. Some of the men who edited this text possessed some of the most enviable credentials the Euro-American world could confer upon them. Yet they could only find one Afro-American poet worthy of being anthologized. Was this racism? I leave the audience to decide. Yet these are some of the same people who tell us today that we do not need Afro-American literature courses, that the quality of Afro-American literature cannot be compared with that of Euro-American literature...
...find this attitude rather remarkable. An American scholar is lauded if he studies the works of Euro-American authors: an Irish critic is honored if he knows the intricacies of Mr. Joyce. One is called perceptive if he can fathom why Beckett is waiting for Godot, of if indeed Pirandello's characters are really in search of an author or vice-versa. Indeed, one admires Pirandello's technical brilliance and his choice of metaphysical subject matter. Yet if and when one decides that the socio-psychological realism of Toni Morrison is indeed of tremendous literary significance or that Margaret Walker...
...certain values. Thus I am neither neutral nor unbiased in my presentation of pedagogical materials. I go even further. I say that each society has its own heroes and villains, its own ideals of man, and its own values. Whatever I do, I make my students understand that the Euro-centric perception of man and of beauty is not the only perception of man and beauty and that one has to employ an historical methodology to understand the truth of this statement...
This experience forms part of "another aesthetic in the world," which differs from the "Euro-centric" aesthetic of western literature in its humanistic values and its claim that art has a social responsibility to humanity, Cudjoe said...