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...shot inside somebody’s home. There was light streaming in, his wife coming and asking if we wanted lunch, and bookcases in the back. It just seemed all wrong, ordinary, unlike this rather imaginary world you can’t see. It seemed we ought to construct a talking space, some imaginative quality, a visual way to situate people in an artificial environment, but somehow reflective of the world they were in.”Galison agrees. “The world of secrecy was diminished in a world that had no secrecy about...
...argued that certain “narrowly-tailored” race-conscious policies may be constitutionally permissible. Yet the use of race, for even the noblest of ends, still remains a contention topic, particularly amongst modern social scientists who rail against race as a mere social construct. A post-racial America may eventually be realized, but the current moment in American society is still fraught with racism and race-consciousness. Until race-neutral policies are able to yield fair and equal opportunities in education, we must be attentive to the reality of de facto segregation, especially in education. Only when...
Faust will then construct a University-wide Greenhouse Gas Reductions Committee by June to implement these findings...
...this climate, the question of ownership of the past has taken on a real edge. "Source nations" like Italy, Greece, Egypt, Turkey and China--homes to the world's ancient civilizations--think of antiquities as national property, essential to the construction of the modern nations' identity. Which in part they are. The problem is whether that idea can accommodate the no less plausible notion that the products of ancient civilizations are also the heritage of all humanity. Our encounter with Shang-dynasty bronzes, Central African carvings and Aztec-calendar stones is part of how we construct for ourselves a human...
...categories: the experts who think the revolution has ended, those who insist that it is still continuing, and a small group who say it never existed at all. In the last faction is John Gagnon, a sociologist who says the idea of a sexually permissive society was basically a construct of American journalism...