![]() ![]() Berkeley, and twelve years teaching at the University of Hawaii. I ventured into the outer world by way of Harvard, the USMC, U.C. The inequalities among ethnic groups run deep. The difference in our experiences says something powerful about the idea of a level playing field. When Malcolm X announced he wanted to be a lawyer, his teacher told him a colored boy should be something more like a carpenter. When I announced I wanted to be an auto-body mechanic, like my dad, my teacher told me I should go to college instead. I grew up in small-town Vermont and New Hampshire. I feel a special excitement at being present when sociology, at last, comes into focus as an idea whose time has come. It represents our last, best hope for planet-training our race and finding ways for us to live together. Sociology shows up as a set of words, also. ![]() ![]() I delight in putting words together in a way that makes people learn or laugh or both. ![]()
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