[回報] Frederick Douglass (JJ閱讀)

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5/31 韓OTL衝的機考的閱讀提到道格拉斯這個人, 母親身為奴隸，而父親是一位他永遠不知道的白人；弗雷德裏克道格拉斯長大後成為廢奴運動的領導者及第一位曾在美國政府擔任高職的黑人公民(曾任美國外交使節及美國駐海地公使兼總領事)。弗雷德裏克道格拉斯 (Frederick Douglass) 剛被某韓G 找到在PP上的閱讀 (可能雷同?) The legacy of Frederick Douglass is a troublesome one for many intellectuals today. As an assimilations and a liberal in the nineteenth-century sense, Douglass can easily be taken as a precursor of modern conservatism. He tended to oppose special programs to help; African Americans that went beyond guaranteed suffrage, legal equality, physical protection, and the right to compete in a free market. Critics are hard on Douglass for what they view as his thoroughly bourgeois point of view, his adherence to the American dream of individual success, and his belief that White or European American culture was preferable to African American folk traditions. Douglass exemplified many strands of nineteenth0century thought0 romanticism, idealism, individualism, liberal humanism, and an unshakable belief in "progress." But his very representativeness of his time means that, to today's critics, most of his ideas are obsolete, the reflections of a simpler, romantic view of America. Douglass's vision of the future as a melting pot in which all racial and ethnic differences will dissolve into a composite American nationality seems, from a modern pluralist perspective, not only utopian but wrongheaded. There is, however, a central aspect of Douglass' thought that seems not in the least bit dated or irrelevant. He was the most insistent and perhaps the most effective critic in ninetieth-century America of the doctrine of innate racial inequality. Not only did Douglass attack racist ideas in his speeches and writings, but he conceived of his entire career and all of his achievements as living proof that racists were wrong about the abilities of African Americans. 四題問題的答案是 BDEC~ gogo 加油! -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 61.129.195.238