Word: cosmopolitanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...active member of the BSA and the Black community on campus, I can assure Professor Kilson, and the University as well, that our focus is upon improving race relations and promoting a truly cosmopolitan atmosphere. I do not happen to believe that seeking to further educate the local academic environs on the diverse talents and contributions of the non-European peoples of the world is necessarily ethnocentric. As has been constantly emphasized, the proposed Third World Center would be available to all students and members of the community. I personally feel that campus racial atmospheres, while improving, continue to lack...
...continued support among Blacks as well as other facets of the community, the Black Alumni Weekend has been created. I don't feel it is ethnocentric at all to encourage, entertain, and be inspired by men and women who have more experience than I concerning the construct of a cosmopolitan community. We are trying to engage in a concerted effort toward the proper recognition and success of all identities. And incidentally, on the subject of alumni resources, I would be willing to wager that reaching out to these alumni in such a personal manner will generate more contributions than...
...slanted idea of the Black community and its point of emphasis. Choosing neither to indict not to condemn, I instead call for Professor Kilson, and all who may chance upon these words, to continue and increase the efforts we must join together towards defining and accurate, fair, and truly cosmopolitan imperative. James M. Kearney...
...assert that "it is a pathetic and disorienting contradiction for Black students line (Black Students' Association President) Timothy Wilkins and Anthony Ball of the Third World Students' Alliance to ask others (Whites) to generate resources to sustain their political preferences" Kilson suggests that Black students should adopt "cosmopolitan lifestyles" and develop "inter-ethnic friendships and net-works," with the belief that "Black students at Harvard who have chosen cosmopolitan identities rather than ethnocentric ones will in the future perform their Black leadership requirements better than Black students who have opted for ethnocentrism." While Kilson maintains that cosmopolitanization doesn't preclude...
...these is a danger in education, the danger of forgetting one's roots and responsibilities. We have short cultural memories. Without developing strong ties to other Blacks while in college, the Black cosmopolitan would have little in common with his poorer brethren save the color of his skin. We need to build a sense of cultural morality, to foster a sense of ethnic responsibility in college. Hanging around the power broken is no way to achieve this...