Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this mature way of managing the trauma of persistent racist victimization of Black folks in American life (trauma recently reinforced by the racist discourse found in The Bell Curve, by Charles A. Murray '65 and the late Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein), you should be formulating week-by-week and month-by-month numerous projects to assist that long-haul task of outfitting the Black poor and underclass youth to read adequately, to manage math, to replace vulgarity with beauty, to overcome hyper-macho, anarchic and anti-humanistic values and personal identities...
...embrace the opportunity to hear several perspectives on various issues so that we can form opinions for ourselves. In light of this, the BSA sponsored events with political scientist Andrew Hacker, social psychologist Jeffrey Howards and Professor of Africans Studies Tony Martin, who offered individual responses to The Bell Curve...
Kilson, who is Black, described Martin as "a xenophobic Afrocentrist" and said he considers the BSA's decision to have Martin speak on the controversial book The Bell Curve an "unfortunate invitation...
Under the prevailing "innate" model of human ability, as encouraged by The Bell Curve, "how you do is norm-based," said Howard...
...does not regret bringing him here because he is a very educated individual who teaches at one of the nation's best colleges and that he, in his speech, used a wide variety of sources, ranging from Jefferson to the Babylonian Talmud to Home, to show that The Bell Curve is not the first book to claim the innate inferiority of the descendants of Africans...