bell hooks describes white liberals as having “a deep emotional investment in the myth of ‘sameness,’ even as their actions reflect the primacy of whiteness as a sign informing who they are and how they think” (278).  Choose four authors from the last section of the course (Jefferson, Olson, Du Bois, Baldwin, Melville, Hooks, Ellison, Hansberry, Alexie, and Banks) and consider how they engage the question of sameness and difference (or universalism and particularism) in their writings. What is the meaning of our acknowledgment of difference or our emphasis on sameness for our sense of ourselves – individually, as part of a group, and as a nation?
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