A few years back, a faculty colleague, after expressing concern that his puppies would develop racist tendencies for lack of exposure to minorities, asked if he could bring the dogs to my house to play with my two sons, ages 1 and 3. My children — like their parents and unlike most everyone else at the college and in our town — are of the Negro persuasion.That's the opening paragraph of Jerald Walker's witty, hopeful essay on color and academia:
Teaching, and Learning, Racial Sensitivity (Chronicle of Higher Education)
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