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Summary: Lawrence Blum, acclaimed philosopher and professor at the University of Massachusetts, taught a course on race and racism over four years at an ethnically and economically diverse high school in Cambridge, Mass. He's written a book about his surprising and sometimes humorous conversations with uninhibited teenagers -- the new face of America. Blum, who speaks at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore Tuesday evening, is the author of High Schools, Race and America's Future: What Students Can Tell Us About Morality, Diversity and Community.