Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Time passes, and marathon runners get tired. This has been a very long race -- too long. I feel I am a slave of the revolution...
Ishmael Reed was born in Chattanooga in 1938 and grew up in Buffalo, New York, where he dropped out of the university because he wasn't interested in being a "slave to somebody else's reading list." Eight years later he moved to Berkeley, where he has been teaching ever since, and in 1979 relocated to an Oakland neighborhood of the type his parents "spent about a third of their lives trying to escape." Reed has published poetry anthologies, plays and 10 novels, including Freelance Pallbearers, Mumbo Jumbo and Reckless Eyeballing. He spoke with The Crimson recently about his latest...
...countries. I've gotten very bitter criticism in the United States. They tried to stop me in the 60s and 70s. And then, what I call the "negro catchers" tried to stop me. Frederick Douglass talked about the bounty hunters who used to try to crack down on the slaves, and the Black ones were worse than the white ones. So I've had them. Some of it's been fun, because I always think of myself in the image of the fugitave slave. Now I'm doing opera--a libretto that's been commissioned by the San Francisco Opera...
...such as going to school and going to work, profoundly influenced by affirmative action, for example, and hence by race? Aren't political aspects, like President Clinton's cabinet, which he promised to make as diverse as America, determined by race? Finally, hasn't our history, stretching from the slave history to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1865 to the Chicano-led migrant worker rebellions, been determined by race...
...ancestry might have been invented to demonstrate the remark of the Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado: Mestizaje es grandeza (Mixture is greatness). Lam's father was Chinese, his mother the daughter of a slave from the Congo. (Spain did not abandon slavery in its Caribbean colonies until 1886.) He grew up hearing African languages spoken all around him, and his godmother was a priestess of a Santeria cult, a hybrid form of Christianity and African worship...