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The Retrograde Quest for Symbolic Prophets of Black Liberation Moving beyond the Moses Complex
Reed, Adolph Jr. http://newrepublic.com/article/161124/retrograde-quest-symbolic-prophets-black-liberation
Publisher: New Republic Date Written: 17/02/2021 Year Published: 2021 Resource Type: Article
One little-examined legacy of the broader intellectual embrace of race-reductive thinking is something we might call the Quest for Moses(es)the shorthand branding exercise of privileging the content of individual characters in our debates on racial injustice. We see this tendency in much of todays wokeness-inflected discourse, which leans heavily on appealing to the authority individuals considered to be exemplary, from differing times or historical contexts, in lieu of empirical arguments to support assertions concerning how we should understand racial injustice.
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