West and Torgovnick
West and Torgovnick: Manichean IdeologiesBoth Cornel West and Marianna De Marco Torgovnickdiscuss the idea of supremacy, Manichean theologies, andauthoritarian behavior in their essays. However, they dealwith these ideas differently and for different reasons. InWest's essay, "Malcolm X and Black Rage", he explains Mal¬colm X's views on how to transfer black rage in such a waythat it would reject supremacy. In Torgovnick's essay, "OnBeing White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst", she writeshow her hometown held supremacist ideas and how this af¬fected her. West is still pursuing the goal of black free¬dom by looking into the past, especially Malcolm X's writ¬ings. Whereas, Torgovnick kind of runs away from things andrefers to living in Bensonhurst as having "simultaneouslychoking and nutritive power. This difference is mainly duebecause West wants to try to make things better, whileTorgovnick leaves her hometown feeling that she needs to Torgovnick writes about supremacist ideas in her cul¬tural background. For example, she says, "Italian Americansin Bensonhurst are notable for their cohesiveness and pro¬vinciality; the slightest pressure turns those qualities
My father also prefers the secretarial track"(Torgovnick 128). In other words people who hold Manichean ideologiesusually don't see things in between. Hawash 4 In order to explain Manichean ideologies and authori¬tarian behavior, one must look at Malcolm X's fear of cul¬tural hybridity. into prejudice and racism" (Torgovnick 123). Meaning that if blacks and whites are to share things(cultural hybridity) whites will always have the advantage. Even though, he recognizes the wrongness of the death, hesays the blacks weren't supposed to be there. He has no trouble acknowledging the wrongness of the death. Thus, Torgovnick father is being a racist. -beyond the best of black music and black religion-reject Manichean ideologies and authoritarian. She writes,"Bensonhurst is a neighborhood dedicated to believing thatits values are the only values; it tends to towards certainforms of inertia" (Torgovnick 124).
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