Why Wouldn’t White Students Choose Einstein’s Stance?

LaToya R Jefferson-James
8 min readMar 5, 2024

With “anti-woke” politics threatening African American/Africana/Ethnic Studies and gender studies programs in higher education across America, it is instructive to look to the past. To deny true American history is also to deny white American students a realistic glimpse of white American moral courage. For example, given the information, why wouldn’t white children choose the critical thinking of Albert Einstein? In 1946, Albert Einstein wrote one of the most eloquent essays to date on American-style racism. He published it in Pageant Magazine, and it was largely

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LaToya R Jefferson-James

LaToya Jefferson-James has a Ph.D. in literature. Welcome! The professor is in! Come in and stay a spell. Let’s discuss and learn from one another.