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...article in the recent Atlantic Monthly Dinesh D'Souza writes of the difficult issues confronting the evolving concept of a liberal education. D'Souza presents a case study of Duke University, and, in a discussion of Black scholars, quotes heavily from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.--the Afro-Am scholar who is leaving Duke to come to Harvard next semester. D'Souza writes...
...friends may be signing up for Anthropology because they want to study primitive tribes that have no microwave ovens. They may want to do Social Studies because they want to live in Dunster House. They may choose Biology because they like the smell of formaldehyde. Or they may like Afro-American studies because of the notoriously light workloads in non-existent departments...
Harvard is still delirious that all-star Afro-Am scholar Henry Louis "Skip" Gates will be coming to Cambridge next fall. But at Duke, from whence Gates hails, things are not as happy. An editorial that ran in the student-run Duke University Chronicle had this to say about Skip Gates...
Although we'll have to wait to pass judgement on Gates, we feel we must call Duke's bluff on one point. Harvard's Afro-Am department is anything but "renowned." "Infamous," maybe, but definitely not "renowned...
Allan Rohan Crite: A Retrospective at the Museum of the National Center for Afro-American Artists through February...