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What Fisher calls the "four-year itch" shows up unmistakably in today's divorce statistics. In most of the 62 cultures she has studied, divorce rates peak around the fourth year of marriage. Additional youngsters help keep pairs together longer. If, say, a couple have another child three years after...
The Shefelmans believe that every American is "made up of many different fantastic cultures." This belief is the basis for A Peddler's Dream and for a trilogy that Janet Shefelman wrote about the coming of age of Wilhemina, a young German immigrant. It will also be the theme of...
Consider what will happen to Afro-American studies if an American Cultures Department or an Ethnic Studies Program does make its way into Harvard: The next logical step would be to subsume Afro-American Studies under American Studies, making it co-equal to an Asian-American and a Latino-American...
What makes Asian and Latino American activists demand "representation" in the curriculum is the spurious egalitarian logic that says that "race" should somehow be as important to their lives and in their education as it is for African-Americans. Asian and Latino Americans have undoubtedly suffered from racial innuendo, discrimination...
Organizations like the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and the five large minority groups responsible for its existence have worked tirelessly to "enhance the quality of our common lives." It is disappointing to see these efforts and their initial motives become co-opted by those who have no...