Re: Two opinions of Washington

From Cyrus R.K. Patell, Negative Liberties: Morrison,
Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology (Durham,
NC: Duke UP, 2001), Ch. 3, "Unenlightened
Enlightenment," pp. 82-140 ...

"If individualism is the product of the Enlightenment,
then for Morrison it is also the product of what she
calls the Enlightenment's 'twin, born at the same
time, the Age of Scientific Racism.'  She notes that
'David Hume, Immanuel Kant and Thomas Jefferson, to
mention only a few, had documented their conclusions
that blacks were incapable of intelligence' (1987b,
108).[...]  Locke's Second Treatise decalres that
slaves are 'property' and thus akin to 'inferior
Creatures' that are 'common to all Men.'" (p. 84)

Citing ("1987b") ...

Morrison, Toni.  "The Site of Memory."
   Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir.
   Ed. William Zinsser.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
   1987.  101-24.

And a few previously posts on/from Patell ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0205&msg=66826&sort=date

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0205&msg=66975&sort=date

First mentioned by Terrance here ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0112&msg=63265&sort=date

Hoping to get to a little Morrison tonight, so ...

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