Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second event brought back memories of battles I had with Black fraternities during my undergraduate days at one of the Black colleges (Lincoln University, Penn.)--battles over their pathetic consumerist and hedonist values, as well as their indifference to the budding civil rights activism in the early 1950s...
...this same consumerist/hedonist world of Black fraternities-their rather ordinary level of bourgeois selfdefinition--that causes me to cast a wary eye on them today, and which ought to cause Harvard Black students to do likewise. Although some Black Greeks have adult branches involved in voter registration and in community uplift activity such as Big-Brother and Big-Sister mentoring, they are mainly still instruments of a consumerist/hedonist bourgeois world view...
...Thus Black Greeks on both white and Black campuses around the country spend much more time, and thousands-on-thousands of their bourgeois and working-class parents' hard-won income, on the annual "cakewalk"-type dance competition and festival, in addition to the usual social and partying events. They spend nowhere near equivalent time, energy and resources mounting mechanisms to confront the long-haul task of rolling back the myriad social pathologies among sections of the Black poor such as massive Black-on-Black crime, abysmal education performance and runaway teenage motherhood and fatherhood. So there is no legitimate political...
UNLIKE the wary eye I cast on Black Greeks, I cast smiling eyes on York Eggleston's new edition of Outlook. A couple of the essays are intellectually exquisite, especially one by Kelly Mikelson, called "Mixed," about growing up as a light-skinned Black in a white foster family in Iowa. There are also several fine poems by Lisa White and Kevin Young...
Unlike the memory of battles with Greeks that the delegation to Dean Epps brought to mind, the current issue of Outlook reminds of the exciting intellectual activity among a group of Harvard Black students during my early teaching days in the 1960s. A group of Black students (among them Ayee Queh Armah, now a novelist; Lee Daniels, now a New York Times correspondent, and Robert Hall, now a college professor) came up with the idea to found a journal--The Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs--and I and Archie Epps, then an assistant dean of freshmen, joined them as advisors...