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...pages for gritty gossip and fashionable celeb photos? But when it comes to a biography of the literary heroes of Transcendentalism, I just can’t get behind this style of all hype and no substance. In a delivery disastrously aimed at the hip-intellectual readership, Susan Cheever??s “American Bloomsbury” reduces Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau to a group of 19th Century Bennifers and Brangelinas. Cheever aims to make “Bloomsbury” a colorful yet historically accurate piece...
...exactly sure what to make of Charles D. Cheever??s piece, “Native Americans and Native Palestinians” (Op-Ed, Oct. 15). Or rather, I should say that I am not sure what I found more disturbing, his gross oversimplifications or his faulty analogies...
...Cheever??s thesis seems to be that the status of Arabs is analogous to that of the Native Americans. Or did Cheever mean Palestinian Arabs? He seems unable to choose. Cheever??s reasons for this comparison are threefold: both groups were “displaced” by some other power; both groups are stereotyped in movies; and both groups represent discrete, disjointed factions which cannot accurately be classified together...
...based on the concept that the Jewish people have a right to live in their historic homeland. When Europeans came to America, they were exercising no such right, and held none of the historical, religious or cultural claims that the Jewish people hold to the land of Israel. Cheever??s analogy is thus faulty...
...Cheever??s second claim is fallacious as well. Arabs and Native Americans are by no means the only two groups to be unfairly stereotyped in the media. Using this distinction to make a claim about the cultural and historical identity of two ethnic groups is simply bizarre. Many groups have suffered unfair portrayal in the American media. Would Cheever use the same argument to draw a connection between Arabs and Hispanics—or between Arabs and Jews, for that matter...
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