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Notes & comments: February 2002.
Harvard's black comedy
Of the many things to be observed about the controversy that has lately erupted at Harvard University over the so-called stars of its Black Studies department, the first is that it has been a welcome and indeed belated development in every respect but one: President Lawrence H. Summers's hasty, unpersuasive recourse to the fiction of a "terrible misunderstanding." We see no evidence of a misunderstanding on either side of the events that triggered this controversy, neither in President Summers's perfectly legitimate attempt to persuade Professor Cornel West to begin meeting a standard of scholarship that is worthy of the high academic ...
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Save Black Studies! IT was supposed to be an ice breaker, a rhetorical...of many major universities to fully integrate Black Studies into their curricula. While a wealth of Black Studies programs was spawned in the politically charged...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Notes & comments: February 2002.