Word: generationism
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The line between being theoretical and being relevant is a thin one, and scholars say Baker and Gates are part of a new generation of Black academics whose own experience makes them suited to discern just what the line is.
"The scholars who are now in their 30s--like Gates--provide a kind of bridge," says Baker, who was a young professor at Yale when Gates was an undergraduate there. "They are the second generation, whose graduate education included exposure to the theoretical explosions of deconstructionism and post-structuralism."
Rampersad, whose recent biography of Langston Hughes is "the founding work in Afro-American literary biography," according to University of Pennsylvania Professor Houston Baker, is part of a new generation of Black scholars, educated in top-flight universities around the period of the Civil Rights movement and the student anti...
A graduate student at Harvard from 1968 to 1972, Rampersad says his experience in academia has been typical of his generation. While at Harvard, Rampersad for the first time encountered Black literature in the classroom--as a section leader for Roger Rosenblatt's course on Afro-American fiction, which was...
Student activism at Harvard in those years was not always so peaceful, as Rampersad recalls, and the more militant student actions also influenced the new generation's perspective on academia. When members of Students for a Democratic Society took over University Hall in April, 1969, Rampersad was there--though he...