Eng. 609 - Week 8 Blog 2

Kenneth W. Warren's "Race and Ethnicity” incorporates the topoi of past fact/future fact in an effort to help us see the past can enlighten us to our ancestors mistakes in regards to racial issues. His essay’s focus on thinkers like W. E. DuBois helps the essay read like an overall history of racial theorems and acts that defined our current state. Further, his reflections of the African diaspora and subsequent injustices are not a plea for handouts. Warren makes a strong argument that we must approach literature without rosy colored lenses where we view racism as some left-wing agenda to incite us. Instead, he argues the future can only be altered and changed when we look at our motives and then change them to honor everyone as equal…

Kenneth W. Warren, in “Race and Ethnicity” (2005) argues that although understanding race as an ideology and a discourse helps us to better comprehend our social, literary history, and texts that make up our literary history, that same knowledge should not be expected to give us tools to fix the current racial inequalities in America (258). Warren supports his argument by offering an insightful history of thinkers and acts, as well as psychological positions that have created a world rife with racism. Warren’s intent is to make the reader aware of the folly of relying on past understanding to fix the current racial tension in our world. Warren creates a formal relationship with his audience of graduate students, scholars, and instructors who are interested in racial theory