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...possible a perspective on the experience of Afro-Americans, a goal that Huggins is quick to affirm: "The type of program I've tried to establish is not the normal curriculum for a program in Afro-American studies." Adding that most universities' programs have "a history and culture bias," he says. "We're trying to involve other social sciences in the curriculum." This approach would naturally require the appointment of economists, sociologists and possibly legal experts to the faculty, as well as historians and literature specialists. The uncertain direction and focus of the department's academic efforts makes it difficult...
...effect, Huggins draws a distinction between a particular ideological orientation and the sort of bias that each academic field naturally develops. "Afro-American studies as a field is by its very nature inclined towards a very different perspective," he notes, adding. "You're asking about people that aren't likely to be looked at from the perspective of other departments. The Afro-American Studies Department will be naturally involved in subject matter that's centrally important to Afro-American life--poverty, distribution, questions of race and class, ethnic and cultural identity." Black militancy and other changes in political power have...
...worry of "peer evaluation" most frequently voiced by critics of the setup. "It doesn't happen," Kaye says, explaining that section assigners deliberately separate friends and acquaintances. A set grading curve and a common final, which none of the section leaders sees beforehand, also help alleviate the possibility of bias, Hughes-Hallet says, adding "Just about the only way someone could help a friend get a good grade would be to teach him math...
...Faculty Club are still guests. Theda Skocpol, an award-winning sociologist, was turned down for tenure here; she filed a grievance, a three-member panel heard her case, and then ruled that indeed there was evidence of gender discrimination. Others have suggested prejudice against junior Faculty and intellectual bias played parts in the denial of tenure. Now it's up to Harvard, and for once the University must respond with actions and not words. Skocpol and more like her deserve places on the Faculty, both because they are great scholars and teachers and because any faculty without minorities or women...
...needs some help reading; that's a good thing to do, to help him out.' Then I started thinking about why mostly illiterate people are in prison.... Then I started thinking about the violence and brutality and injustice of prisons, and what connection that has with the structure and bias of our society--of how, while Black people are a small percentage of the population, they're the over-whelming majority in prison. You can develop a theory of racial inferiority, but that doesn't make sense once you get to know people." The experience moved John "past the stereotypes...