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...people, from a majority-white to a truly multiracial society. These nonwhite and Hispanic students want a curriculum that gives them more dignity. So do women and gays -- and faculty from all those groups. Says the Rev. Clarence Glover Jr., who teaches a course about the sins of "the European-American male" at Southern Methodist University in Dallas: "People of color have always been a majority in the world and are now becoming a majority in America. The issue becomes, How do we begin to share power...
...York State, a report from the Task Force on Minorities (A Curriculum of Inclusion) has launched a fierce attack on "Eurocentrism" in the schools. It begins, "African Americans, Asian Americans, Puerto Rican/Latinos and Native Americans have all been the victims of an intellectual and educational oppression that has characterized the culture and institutions of the United States and the European-American world for centuries." Result: "Terribly damaging" to the "psyche" of minority youth. Recommendation: Prepare all curricular materials "on the basis of multicultured contributions to the development of all aspects of our society...
...Americans of African ancestry should henceforth be known as African-Americans adds a popular voice to a concept put forth by Black intellectuals for many years. This is a very serious matter because it involves the labeling of some 30 million North Americans (and millions in the Caribbean and Latin America) who can trace part of their ancestry back to Africa. In our search for a positive identity of our own choosing, we have gone from African, to Colored, to Negro, to Black (a protest term which demonstrated that we preferred to identify with our African rather than our European...
This is the beginning, Gay announces, of a formidable project: a psychological history of at least five volumes on the European-American middle class from roughly 1820 to 1920. This middle class was not large-Gay estimates it at generally no more than 15% of the population-but the 19th century was the era in which it replaced the aristocracy as the ruling class of the Western world, the arbiter of style and morality. Should this ruling class now be reinterpreted not according to its economic or political influence but its sexual mores? Gay apparently believes so. The changes that...
More attention must be given to European-American relations. Misunderstandings abound. To many Europeans, Reagan looks like a warmonger. To many Americans, Europeans seem unaware of the Communist threat from the Soviet Union and contribute too little to NATO. The causes of such misreadings are clear, but we cannot afford them...