- METCO-serviced: The Metco Program is a grant program funded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is a voluntary program intended to expand educational opportunities, increase diversity, and reduce racial isolation, by permitting students in certain cities to attend public schools in other communities that have agreed to participate.
When first reading this, if I would have known what METCO was, I could have understood more about the author's background.
- Bodhisattva: an enlightened existence
Words that Kang uses such as Bodhisattva are not commonly heard, and knowing what they mean helps to understand his main idea.
- James Baldwin: wrote essays that explored unspoken intricacies of distinctions made by race, class, and sex.
Kang said he could mirror Baldwin's rejection of acculturation. And that he couldn't use him to describe his relationship to baseball. Knowing who James Baldwin is makes the point he was trying to make clearer
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