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This is a big mandate, even for a guy who was doing trigonometry in first grade. But Goff, who is described by friends and colleagues as a visionary, has a combination of artistic, academic and personal talents that uniquely equip him to take up the struggle for racial equality...
Academically, Goff originally intended to study math and physics, but he decided that mathematical questions were not the ones he wanted to be answering. ("I didn't want to be the black math/science guy," he quips.) Instead, he enrolled in a graduate seminar with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 as a first-year, and after dabbling in gender studies, found his place as an Afro-American studies concentrator. He will head to Stanford next year to begin a Ph.D. in social psychology...
...Academics can ask the right questions. Policy makers can intervene to make the macro-structural changes needed to facilitate equality," Goff says, adding that he plans a career in both areas. "But you can't change people's mind through force of logic. You have to connect with them, and the only way to do that on a large-scale is through...
...Goff grew up in the suburbs just outside West Philadelphia, a product of Southern-born parents who were the first in their families to transition from poverty to a solid middle-class existence...
...Goff credits his achievements to his "incredibly strong" parents, but notes that it is perhaps ironic that they produced a child so fascinated by issues of race, considering that they absolutely refused to discuss the racism they faced in the still-bigoted South because of their intermarriage...