Barbara Johnson Quotes
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
Blacks in America are generally more religious than whites and almost all religious Blacks are Christian. As such, they tend to be very forgiving, non-violent, and more tolerant of sin and wrong than whites are. Foreman and others believe if Blacks had not been so Christianized, they would have been more rebellious, more violent and more vengeful than there were and are. This may well have been better for them in terms of American History and in getting more of the “pie” of contemporary society.”
Barbara Ellen Johnson was an American literary critic and translator, born in Boston. She was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. Her scholarship incorporated a variety of structuralist and poststructuralist perspectives—including deconstruction, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and feminist theory—into a critical, interdisciplinary study of literature. As a scholar, teacher, and translator, Johnson helped make the theories of French philosopher Jacques Derrida accessible to English-speaking audiences in the United States at a time when they had just begun to gain recognition in France. Accordingly, she is often associated with the "Yale School" of academic literary criticism.
