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Stanley Fish

Recent articles by Stanley Fish

November 1993

Reverse Racism, or How the Pot Got to Call the Kettle Black

In America "whites once set themselves apart from blacks and claimed privileges for themselves while denying them to others," the author writes. "Now, on the basis of race, blacks are claiming special status and reserving for themselves privileges they deny to others. Isn't one as bad as the other? The answer is no."