"Courses were offered in such fields as nineteenth-century black history and Hispanic-American folk art. The activists made a peculiar claim for these classes. They insisted that the courses would alleviate the cultural anxiety of nonwhite students by permitting them to stay in touch with their home culture. The perspective gained in the classroom or the library does indeed permit an academic to draw nearer to and understand better the culture of the alien poor. But the academic is brought closer to lower-class culture because of his very distance from it. Leisured, and skilled at abstracting from immediate experience, the scholar is able to see how aspects of individual experience constitute a culture. By contrast, the poor have neither the inclination nor the skill to imagine their lives so abstractly."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Richard Rodriguez Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Folk_art
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Folk art
4 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Folk art →
Related Quotes
"[Folk art, consists of] work done by ordinary people in the course of their lives, work seldom thought of by those wh…"
"Folk art signifies the poetical, musical, and pictorial activities of those strata of the population which are uneduc…"
"It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and…"
"I ask El Espinal mayors not to allow more events involving the death of people or animals [after the bullfighting sta…"
"The Roman public's thirst for blood and pleasure in witnessing pain seems to have been unquenchable and without limit…"
"What you are interested in is the art whereby a man using no tricks reduces a raging bull to his dimensions, and this…"
"He was an admirer of the bullfight, and had once drawn my attention to the fact that only cricket and bullfighting ha…"
"At the first bullfight I ever went to I expected to be horrified and perhaps sickened by what I had been told would h…"
"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the p…"
"The crowd are on their feet, stamping and cheering, but El Cid just stands and stares at the bull in grave silence, h…"