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Education has paralleled the life of prospering white America: it has been characterized by reverence for efficiency, cultivation of competence unattended by concern for aim, big white lies, and the mainly successful blackout of Black life.

— June Jordan Black Studies: Bringing Back The Person (1969)

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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

Black Studies: Bringing Back The Person (1969)

Revolution always unforlds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.

Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.

We are among those who have been violated into violence.

Black Studies: Bringing Back The Person (1969)

Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine.

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