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Alice Bernstein at The Harlem Book Fair
Orange Angle Press booth at Harlem Book Fair (l t r) Alice Bernstein, Patsy Lewis and Antonio Workman at the Harlem Book Fair Saturday, July 24, 2004. Photo: David M. Bernstein The author of AESTHETIC REALISM AND THE ANSWER TO RACISM Articles Published Nationwide & Abroad by Alice Bernstein & Others. This book is being published with a sense of urgency and hope; urgency, because racism is still rampant in the world; hope, because there is a true, practical, kind, learnable, and yes—even beautiful—answer. That answer is in the study of Aesthetic Realism, the education founded by the great American poet and critic Eli Siegel (1902-1978), who identified the cause of all human injustice as contempt, the “addition to self through the lessening of something else.” Racism, he explained, does not begin with race, but with the human tendency to have contempt for the world, for everything the self sees as different (http://www.alicebernstein.net). This book documents how, through study of Aesthetic Real-ism, contempt changes—not into tolerance, but into true respect for other people, and a conviction that we need the difference of the world to be all we can be. Check out this website where you can read articles by Alice Bernstein and friends and colleagues. at
www.alicebernstein.net
Alice Bernstein may be reached directly at
Ajoybern@mindspring.com
The 6th Harlem Book Fair! This, the largest African American book fair of its kind, expected to draw more than 40,000 New Yorkers and visitors to West 135th Street (from Fifth Avenue to Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevards) in Harlem. Over 250 booths will be set up along West 135th Street offering books, story-telling, readings, and opportunities to meet and greet authors on four stages that will feature spoken word poets, celebrities, and music throughout the day.