National Pride & the Permanence of Racism: can we reconcile Richard Rorty’s “social hope” with Derrick Bell’s “racial realism”?

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Brief Overview

I am interested in putting Rorty's claim that national pride is necessary if political deliberation is to be imaginative & productive with Bell’s claims that racism is permanent & that black people will never gain full equality in the United States.

Author

• Nathan Dean, Western New England University