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Readers have indicated to me that additional information was missing in The Crimson's coverage. One reader suggested that profiles of one grape grower and one ex-grape worker were insufficient to portray either their respective sides of the debate or the controversies surrounding worker conditions. The context of grapes as a national issue was conspicuously absent. Crimson readers have told me that they had not heard of the grape boycott before it became an issue at Harvard. A more thorough examination of the historical prominence and symbolism of the grape boycott would have put the issue in context...
Nueva Generacion submitted a paper to the committee which identifies several Latina candidates in mujerista theology, which is the study of theology in the Latina context...
...reasons like this one, West says he believes that whiteness studies "must be in a historical context...that takes seriously race." In other words, whiteness studies is an important part of American studies and as such should be incorporated into other departments instead of becoming a department of its own--the same way that African-American studies could have been incorporated into other departments and did not by definition necessitate a department of its own. "But it depends on what the institution's responses are," West says. "If people think that we can teach American history and not engage...
...questions the legitimacy of studying white literature or white history as they do African-American studies, for example, because "white" in this context has become "the." This is a particular kind of privilege that whites and only whites in this country enjoy. Understanding the racial and historical location of canonical authors, however, is important as long as Ralph Ellison, for example, is primarily studied as "a black author." Similar logic applies to race: racial constructs--such as whiteness and blackness--only exist in contrast to one another, so to study black disadvantage in America, for example, is also to study...
...healing was at its most theatrical during the Renaissance when doctors operated on dead bodies and treated living patients in the center of a pillared medical theater. Leonardo da Vinci depicted several such scenes in his paintings. In placing Medicine as Art/Art as Medicine within this historical and artistic context, he is further able to blur the boundary between art and real life...