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Einstein on Race and Racism: Einstein on Race and Racism, First Paperback Edition 9780813540986
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Einstein on Race and Racism
Einstein on Race and Racism FRED JEROME AND RODGER TAYLOR
Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London
First paperback printing, 2006 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jerome, Fred. Einstein on race and racism / Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–8135–3617–0 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978–0–8135–3952–2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Einstein, Albert, 1879–1955—Views on racism. I. Taylor, Rodger, 1953– II. Title. QC16.E5J466 2005 530.092—dc22 2004023485 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library.
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My fellow humanists,
I am deeply humbled to be here today. I know this is a standard statement to make at moments such as these, but in my case it has the added virtue of being true. There is no one on the list of Jefferson lecturers, beginning with Lionel Trilling, who is not an intellectual and artistic hero of mine, and I cannot fathom why I am part of this procession. But that makes me feel all the more humbled, so I thank you.
It is particularly meaningful for me to be giving this lecture on the 25th anniversary of the one by Walker Percy. I took the train from New York for that occasion, looking out of the window and thinking of his eerie essay about the malaise, “The Man on the Train.” If memory serves, it was over at the Mellon Auditorium, and Lynne Cheney did the introduction.
Dr. Percy, with his wry philosophical depth and lightly-worn grace, was a hero of mine. He lived on the Bogue Falaya, a bayou-like, lazy river across Lake Pontchartrain from my hometown of New Orleans. My friend Thomas was his nephew, and thus he became “Uncle Walker” to all of us kids who used to go up there to fish, capture sunning turtles, water ski, and flirt with his daughter Ann. It was not quite clear what Uncle Walker did. He had trained as a doctor, but he never practiced. Inst