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Fitness instructors looking to add some vigor to fatigued exercise routines have been searching other cultures for inspiration. In Atlanta, Crunch Fitness has developed a class called Street Stomp, derived from stepping, a dance form believed to have originated in Africa and popularized by African-American fraternities and sororities. Routines...
At Harvard, Wamba found a mentor in DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., who later hired him to edit Africana.com, the website that culminated Gates’ efforts to spread understanding of African cultures.
The next great curricular review in the late 1970s yielded a more global result; western civilization does not have the same privileged place in the Core that it had in the Red Book, and an explicit Foreign Cultures requirement demands that our students be educated more broadly. Yet the very...
But what was ending was not history itself but the history of the nation-state--a constitutional order characterized by governments that promised to better the material well-being of a historically defined people. F.D.R., Stalin and Hitler each promised this, even if they had radically different notions of what...
As the Atari-playing American-born son of Chinese immigrants, the narrator is stuck between two cultures. His repressed, hard-working parents live up to their roles as model minorities, but he doesn't want to play the part of the meek Asian kid. We see a teacher congratulating the...