Word: guinier
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...December 12, 1972, two giants in the early history of Harvard’s Afro-American studies department, Ewart Guinier ’33 and Martin L. Kilson, debated the role of Afro-American studies in higher education...
...York City television program called “Positively Black,” the two held a heated debate in which Kilson argued the “interdisciplinary” view that students should get a grounding in a discipline before beginning an education in Afro-American studies, while Guinier stressed the “organic” or “Afrocentric” view, which stresses the importance of studying the black experience “from the point of view of the people who have lived that experience...
...example, Boskey Professor of Law Lani Guinier ’71 has suggested that a university could reaffirm its commitment to diversity by requiring that all applicants write a personal statement describing how they would contribute to the diversity of the university. Evaluation of the essay would focus on the student’s commitment to contribute to the university’s diversity, not on a qualitative assessment of the substance of a student’s contribution. This reform would reemphasize that diversity is integral to the democratic mission of the university. It would also respect the unique...
...government was put together by an all-white, all-male, mostly slave-owning and aristocratic minority,” said Lani Guinier, the first Latino woman to be tenured at Harvard Law School...
...also features interviews with Radcliffe Dean Drew Gilpin Faust, Juliet Schor, a former women’s studies professor, and Lani Guinier ’71, the first black woman to be tenured at Harvard Law School...