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Similarly, we find in Gates' book that these conservatives feared that the women and people of color who were entering traditional literary institutions would disrupt the canon of literary values and force what they called "tribal" or "parochial" cultural traditions on Anglo-American culture...
...this sense, then, "[v]ulgar cultural nationalists...like Allan Bloom or Leonard Jeffrey...are whistling in the wind." Whether they falsely assert Anglo-American culture as universal (a la Bloom) or "lay claim to the ideal of 'blackness' as an ideology or a quasi religion, totalized and essentialized into a protofascist battering ram supervised by official thought police" (a la Jeffries), they fail to ready the young for the world they will face...
Oddly enough, at some points Gates offers his own "traditional" justification for all this--from the writings of Cardinal Newman to the "age-old ideal" of mathesis universalis to simple "common sense" (which is used by the right to defend the Anglo-American canon "common sense," for example, might say that Shakespeare is "better" than Zora Neale Hurston).But in this case, Gates says, "[c]ommon sense says that you don't bracket 90 percent of the world's cultural heritage if you really want to learn about the world." Good point...
This fall, Harper will teach a junior tutorial in Afro-Am as well as English course on Anglo-American modernism from 1890 to 1930. Next semester he will teach an Afro-Am course on the literature of the 1920's and English 90vt, "Social Marginality and Postmodern Culture," a subject which is the focus of his doctoral dissertation and forthcoming book...
This fall, Harper will teach a junior tutorial in Afro-Am as well as an English course on Anglo-American modernism from 1890 to 1930. Next semester he will teach an Afro-Am course on the literature of the 1920's and English 90vt, "Social Marginality and Postmodern Culture," a subject which is the focus of his doctoral dissertation and forthcoming book...