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...talisman to its rightful owner. Taylor has said in interviews that Raphah was meant to atone for the paucity of black heroes in children’s literature. An admirable goal, but in the novel, anyway, Taylor fails to address the implications of his hero’s origins??even when Demurral takes the step of branding him. The appearance of an African on the coast of Yorkshire elicits relatively mild surprise from the local inhabitants. Indeed, Raphah’s skin color and its evocation of the mysterious African continent appear to be little more than...
...regaled his classmates with stories of his rise from humble origins??his family did not own a telephone until he was in high school—to the apex of Ivy League academia...
...said, ‘young man’—I was a young man then, not yet working at Origins??‘make me over. I’m a Dior girl,’” he recalls. “I was sitting there thinking, what am I going to do with her eyes? She’s an uncommonly plain woman, you know, but so engaging that you forget...
...white men” members—non-Western cultures have also continued the advancement of Western society. Scholars point to Islamic philosophy and science as deeply influencing the European Renaissance, a primary foundation of later Western thought. Much of modern science and technology draws from Arabic origins??numerals, algebra, trigonometry, navigation—as well as Chinese innovations—paper, printing and the compass. Gandhian ideals of satyagraha as expressed through the civil disobedience movements of African-Americans have further contributed to Western liberal thinking...
...other highly educated and motivated students—students who, in spite of their accomplishments, are inconvenienced simply because of their national origins??decide not to remain in the U.S. because of similar trouble in acquiring visas, he says, the nation could suffer as a whole, inducing its own “brain drain...