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She told him the origins of the "buck dance," when "white people would come up and say 'N____r, dance', and then start shooting around the feet of blacks so that they would dance like everything." 45 Big Ma was an important presence in Jimmy's childhood and adolescence, and he credited her with giving him a unique and powerful sense of historical change. "When she talked about slavery," he recalled, "she always talked not about how they fre..
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Grace deeply identified with Mead's view that ideas evolve historically. "Unlike the average American teacher of philosophy of his day," she wrote, Mead "urged his students to relate the ideas of the great philosophers to the periods in which they lived and the social problems which they faced." 99 For example, in his book Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century (1936), a collection of lectures Mead delivered in his history of philos..
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What are you complaining about? If they don't want you over here, why don't you go over on Hastings Street and get yourself something?" This led to the following exchange: DAC members: We don't want to eat on Hastings. We want to eat here. Police officer: Well, the man said he don't want to serve you. DAC members: Yes, but the law says he has to serve us. This could lead to "an argument with the police officer, but he eventually would write..
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Under Weiss's direction, Grace began to delve deeply into writings and ideas that would shape the rest of her life. To begin with, Weiss introduced her to the works of German philosophers Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. "Kant made a lot of sense to me," she recalled, because his Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and Critique of Practical Reason (1788) resonated with and affirmed her skepticism of traditional philosophy. She wa..
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