Aesthetic Realism
A New Perspective for Anthropology & Sociology

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Aesthetic Realism Versus Racism

Speakers on the Aesthetic Realism understanding of racism
Allan Michael, Monique Michael, Jaime Torres, & Arnold Perey speak
on how Aesthetic Realism explains the cause of racism and the
solution at the Eli Siegel Memorial in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Maryland

bullet - teaching - Eli Siegel, originator of teaching method"Teaching Indian Culture in the US."

Published in the India Tribune and other English language Indian journals. How do we combat the desire for contempt, which cripples one's ability to understand or have good will for people of another culture?

bulletAesthetic Realism and the Answer to Racism edited by Alice Bernstein

This work will be seen as a classic. This book, writes Ms. Bernstein, "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." Click here for more about Aesthetic Realism and the Answer to Racism

bulletSee Ellen Reiss's essay on the cause of racism quoted in the Philippine Post. Ms. Reiss is the Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism. And see the issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known from which this quotation comes: Racism Can End, commentary by Ellen Reiss

bullet - teaching - Eli Siegel, originator of teaching methodA note on Eli Siegel's great anti-racist essay "The Equality of Man" (1923)

"About Five Writers Eli Siegel Refers to in “The Equality of Man” (1923): Galton, Terman, McDougall, Nietzsche, Mencken." Today, these famous writers are mostly forgot, except Nietzsche and, to a degree, Mencken. When Eli Siegel—who was to found the philosophy Aesthetic Realism in 1941—criticized them in 1923 he questioned some of the leading lights of the contemporary world for their racist notions. Click here for more on Eli Siegel vs. Racism.

bullet - racismCauses of Racism In Anthropology Newsletter (American Anthropological Association)

bullet - racismThe Real Opposition to Racism In The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known

bullet - racismThe Solution to Racism In The Black World Today


Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy founded by Eli Siegel in 1941, is taught in classes, public seminars and presentations, and individual consultations at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation in New York City; as well as by speaking engagements nationwide and telephone consultations. The Class Chairman, Ellen Reiss, teaches the classes for Aesthetic Realism associates and consultants which I attend. As I write today I am proud to say that I am a consultant on the Foundation's faculty. I teach anthropology and teacher education workshops and I am an instructor in consultations, which teach a person the aesthetic way of seeing the world and themselves.  Links are provided below so you can find out more.

Home Page: Aesthetic Realism: A New Perspective for Anthropology & Sociology
Aesthetic Realism Foundation
Aesthetic Realism Online Library
Links to Aesthetic Realism Resources
John Singer Sargent's Madame X, an Aesthetic Realism Discussion
Essays and News Pieces about Aesthetic Realism
The Place of Aesthetic Realism in Culture,"Friends of Aesthetic Realism — Countering the Lies


Anti-Racism Resources:

See the page titled " How Aesthetic Realism Opposes Racism." The practical and deep articles on the Web include, too, "On Racism & How to End It" by Nancy Huntting; Allan Michael's "It Is In Contempt That the Root of Racism Lies"; Alice Bernstein's "Poems by Eli Siegel about Martin Luther King and America" and the book she edited: Aesthetic Realism and the Answer to Racism. Other articles include, "The Genome & Equality""Words, Truth, & the Confederate Flag"; "Fascism, Understood At Last!"; "Aesthetic Realism: The Solution to Racism""Contempt, the Cause of Racism""Queen's Visit to Amritsar" by Christopher Balchin. And articles by New York teachers who show how the standard curriculum, K-12, can be used to encourage kindness include: "Prejudice Changes to Respect" and "Students Learn, Prejudice Is Defeated!"

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Friends of Aesthetic Realism—Countering the Lies
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