"The Answer to the Poverty and Prejudice Afflicting Native Americans," "An Anthropologist Speaks about Race," by Arnold Perey, PhD "Israelis and Germans Need to Study Contempt," by Ruth Oron "Richard Wright, Aesthetic Realism, and the End of Racism," "India: The Amritsar Massacre," by Christopher Balchin ![]() Some chapters are: "Aesthetic Realism Explains Where Racism Begins-and What Can End It," 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. They come from cities throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Israel, England, Haiti, Germany, Egypt. Siegel himself, and continue their study in professional classes taught by Ellen Reiss, Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism. Many of the authors have been educated in classes taught by Mr. ![]() 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, filmmaking, anthropology, business, photography, music, and aesthetics. 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. ![]() 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 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.
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