Orange
Angle Press Is Proud to Publish—
AESTHETIC
REALISM AND THE
ANSWER
TO RACISM
Articles
Published Nationwide & Abroad
AESTHETIC
REALISM
AND THE
ANSWER TO RACISM
Articles Published
Nationwide
& Abroad
by Alice Bernstein
& Others
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“The Equality
of Man”
by Eli Siegel
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This book is being published
with a sense of urgency and hope; urgency, because racism is still rampant
in the world; hope, because there is a true, practical, kind, learnable,
and yes—even beautiful—answer.
That answer is in the
study of Aesthetic
Realism, the education founded by the great American poet and
critic Eli Siegel (1902-1978),
who identified the cause of all human injustice as contempt, the “addition
to self through the lessening of something else.” Racism, he explained,
does not begin with race, but with the human tendency to have contempt
for the world, for everything the self sees as different.
This book documents how, through study of Aesthetic |
Realism, contempt changes—not into tolerance, but into true
respect for other people, and a conviction that we
need the difference of the world to be all we can be.
Journalist Alice Bernstein is
joined by 25 other authors—teachers and students of Aesthetic Realism—who
represent the diversity of humanity, and passionately want to see racism
end: authorities in education, medicine, anthropology, filmmaking, business,
photography, music, and aesthetics. Many of the authors have been educated
in classes taught by Mr. Siegel himself, and continue their study in professional
classes taught by Ellen Reiss, Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism. They
come from cities throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Israel, England,
Haiti, Germany, Egypt.
This book is an anthology of
articles, written in relation to history, art, science, literature, current
events, and life as it’s lived on an ordinary day, which have appeared
in newspapers and journals in the U.S. and abroad. Some chapters are:
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“Aesthetic Realism Explains Where Racism Begins—and
What Can End It,”
by Alice Bernstein |
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“India: The Amritsar Massacre,” by Christopher Balchin |
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“Richard Wright, Aesthetic Realism, and the
End of Racism,” by Allan Michael |
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“Israelis and Germans Need to Study Contempt,”
by Ruth Oron and Julie Jensen |
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“An Anthropologist Speaks about Race,” by
Arnold Perey, PhD |
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“The Answer to the Poverty and Prejudice Afflicting Native
Americans,”
by Harvey Spears |
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“A Latino Perspective,” by Dr. Jaime R. Torres |
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“Every Subject Is Anti-Prejudice: the Aesthetic
Realism Teaching Method,”
by Rosemary Plumstead |
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“Teaching English as a Second Language to
Chinese Children,” by Patricia Martone |
We are honored to reprint one
of the earliest essays by Eli Siegel, ”The Equality of Man,” first published
in 1923, and two issues of the journal The Right of Aesthetic Realism
to Be Known, including the landmark commentary “Racism Can End,” by
Ellen Reiss.
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