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...that have brought more attention to black history. There has been a “great deal of improvement and there’s a long way to go,” Matory said. An economist historian who is a fellow at Harvard’s DuBois Institute, Stanley Engerman, said that Woodson first proposed Negro History Week because “most history discussions didn’t say anything about black history.” According to Engerman, black history is no longer divorced from American history in history textbooks. “The goal has really been...
...work. She emphasized that all members of the Harvard community are welcome to attend these discussions.This year’s new fellows are Syl Cheney-Coker, previously a fellow of the Villa-Aurora Foundation for European-American Relations; Bobby Donaldson, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina; Stanley Engerman, a professor at the University of Rochester; Ronald Ferreira, assistant professor at the University of Virginia; Maria Frias, professor at the University of Coruna in Spain; Arlette Frund, associate professor at the Université François Rabelais,Tours; Harry Garuba, associate professor at the Centre for African Studies; Lesley...
There is a withering crossfire of pedantries in nearly all academic discussions of slavery and American blacks. Two years ago, in a book called Time on the Cross, Economist-Historians Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman accumulated a mass of data on antebellum life in the South. They fed their statistics into computers and came up with an astonishing portrait of slavery as a highly rational and efficient system that gave the South considerable economic growth and a high standard of living for all Southerners, both black and white. While admitting the immorality of slavery, Fogel and Engerman found that blacks...
...Fogel and Engerman thesis, rather weirdly cheerful, seemed a relapse back to something like the banjo school. It brought a fusillade of rebuttal, most of it convincing. Fogel and Engerman argued that blacks were willing collaborators in an un fair but workable capitalist system: owners got free labor, blacks got economic rewards and family stability if they played along...
...article, which appeared in the New York Review of Books, went on to attack Fogel's book, which Stanley Engerman coauthored, for "carelessness" in the interpretation and collection of statistical evidence and "extreme overindulgence in the heady art of pyramiding assumptions...