Word: callblacksã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...BlackCAST’s annual spring fashion show, four students in the mock a capella group “The Callblacks?? performed a skit comparing University President Larry H. Summers’ treatment of blacks at Harvard to that of a plantation overseer...
...diversity” at Harvard. The many possible arguments against establishing ethnic studies departments, on both practical and ideological grounds, have been largely ignored in favor of racially-tinged emotional appeals and protests. A performance by the mock a cappella group “The Callblacks?? even implied Summers was racist. Nevertheless, this dispute cannot realistically be seen as a racial or ethnic problem; the administration under Summers has steadfastly resisted any attempt to atomize academic study—queer studies being one oft-overlooked example. Reasonable people may debate the merits of ethnic and queer studies?...
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