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A Tale of Two Liberalisms: Desegregating American Political Thought
JMC Scholar Susan McWilliams Barndt (Pomona College) delivered a Constitution Day lecture at Skidmore College on “A Tale of Two Liberalisms: Desegregating American Political Thought” on September 9.
Political scientists have long observed that American politics has been defined by an individualist liberal tradition that has its roots in the Enlightenment. Professor Barndt argues that this focus has been at the expense of another notion of liberalism rooted in the Exodus story and expressed in African-American political thought.