COMM 2273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 53: Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, John Stuart Mill, Anti-Racism
10 Feb 2020
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Generic answers: mere inclusion is not sufficient if it"s not done on owns on terms. When african american intellectuals entered the public sphere, it was usually because of an effort by (white, male) sympathetic elites and insiders to expand it. But nonwhites were admitted only on the terms of already active participants and not as uncontested participants. Even where participation was available, it was frequently on humiliating and contradictory grounds. The paternalism of many white allies of african americans bespeaks the contradictory nature of the exclusions embedded in the very concept of equality in the public sphere. In the latter situation, the power of elites, even sympathetic ones, is placed in question, and the democratic imagination of disempowered actors frequently surpasses the incremental or slow-moving changes that the dominant group"s systems can allow. We find many figures like john stuart mill: white abolitionists, who helped build the underground.
