Word: genderism
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...Fight the Power” into rap discourse; poet/rapper Saul Williams and DJ Spooky offer their own (somewhat ponderous) philosophies of sampling and breakbeats. Most hip-hop scholars in the academy have focused more on hip-hop’s intersection with reconstituted discourses of race and gender, and less on the form itself. Witness the inclusion of Tupac in a Harvard course on protest literature, or the schizophrenia of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s “Hip Hop” course, whose syllabus is fraught with jarring references to “commodity fetishization?...
This 10-year-old side project of the Kenan Professor of Government—Mansfield ’53 normally spends his days translating Machiavelli and doling out C-minuses—broadly analyzes manliness as a fading characteristic in our modern, supposedly “gender neutral” world. “Manliness,” Mansfield said to the large crowd in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room, “is confidence in the face of risk...
...expressed the view that women are underrepresented in the academic world because of innate inability rather than prejudice (“Faculty Uproar Led to Ouster,” news, Feb. 22), I’ve been asking my colleagues whether they agree. To my surprise, many agree that gender-based discrimination is largely past, even when learning of studies that unequivocally reveal its persistence. It seems that the tendency to believe in a fair world is a powerful one, with the ability to perceive discrimination coming only slowly after a person has experienced enough prejudice to cause harm...
...wrote in an e-mail. “Though [Harvard] is a secular institution, as it should be, I think the issue of students’ spiritual growth is unnecessarily shied away from,” he wrote. The study also broke down the data according to gender, race, and academic discipline. Sixty-six percent of African-American faculty describe themselves as spiritual “to a great extent,” the report said, compared to 48 percent of Caucasian faculty and only 37 percent of Asian and Asian-American faculty. Professors in the physical and biological sciences...
...minority voting. “The [definition of] female is different for people who look different. You want to be in an environment where people are sharing an experience with you,” Lee said. For many black undergraduates, that experience is one of race rather than gender, according to Lee. One ABHW member joked that many minorities assume that RUS is “the women’s association for white people”—prompting laughter from the attendees. One RUS member cited the need for her organization to understand...