Rawls

Rawls projects stop-motion videos of still images of Black dancers onto chroma green screens suspended from the ceiling.

Many of the houses on Robinson’s block are gone, including the home of his former neighbor drummer Kenny Elliott, who died of cancer last year and had played with Lou Rawls, Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald.

Whereas some philosophers, such as John Rawls, have been criticized for describing an approach to politics that is blind to the historical dimensions of group identity, others, such as Charles Mills, might be critiqued for prioritizing group identity over all other factors.

Rousseau arrived at democracy by envisioning a state of nature populated by peaceful and compassionate noble savages, while Rawls declared that social inequality could be justified only if inequality improved the living standards of the worst-off.

When they first came to the island, Chicken chose a dog-eared copy of Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.