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Jack Salzman, Cornel West Struggles in the Promised

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On Imag<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g Foes, Imag<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g Friendship \\ 383<br />

like magnificent <strong>in</strong>heritances, for <strong>the</strong>y convey an excess of what we have imag<strong>in</strong>ed,<br />

<strong>the</strong>y bear gifts beyond imag<strong>in</strong>ation, <strong>the</strong>y reveal and revisit <strong>the</strong> wealth of history.<br />

How carefully, how slowly, and how lov<strong>in</strong>gly we might step <strong>in</strong>to our expectations<br />

of each o<strong>the</strong>r <strong>in</strong> such a world.<br />

"I was not hunt<strong>in</strong>g for my liberty, but also hunt<strong>in</strong>g for rny name," said<br />

William Wells Brown.<br />

Notes<br />

1. Calv<strong>in</strong> Herntori. "The Sexualization of Racism," <strong>in</strong> Sex and Racism <strong>in</strong> America,<br />

New York, 1988; see also, Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma, 1944, pp. 587-88.<br />

2. Richard W. Perry, unpublished letter of June 1, 1994, on file with author.<br />

3. Jane Purse, "Whoopi cooks up a storm," The Daily News, Dec. 1, 1993, p. 3C,<br />

col. 1.<br />

4. Ibid.<br />

5. Ibid.<br />

6. Anita Creamer, "Costumes Can't Hide Right and Wrong," The Sacramento Bee,<br />

Nov. 2, 1993, p. Dl.<br />

7. See 110S. Ct. at 3025-26.<br />

8. Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights (Cambridge, MA, 1991).

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