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Several Kennedy School students, along with advisors from the Biology Department, held a study break last Tuesday to study Murray and Hernnstein's book and educate themselves on its content before the protest, Ratzman said...
...written by white males. Says Cornell Professor Henry Gates, architect of a new 30-volume anthology of pre-1910 works by black women: "The center of power has shifted within traditional ((studies)) as a result of the growing presence of women, blacks and people of color." Duke's Barbara Hernnstein Smith, president of the influential Modern Language Association, notes approvingly that "writings by women and black authors are now being studied and taught" right alongside the old canon. Examples of the new eclecticism...
Third World women are confronted not only with the sexual stereotypes which afflict all women at Harvard but with the racism that pervades the institution, overtly expressed by racists like Richard J. Hernnstein and Bernard D. Davis, and covertly by the Harvard Administration through its efforts to undermine the Afro-American Studies Department. This last example is of particular importance to the question of Women's Studies. The Afro-American Studies Department was established in 1969 in response to demands made by black students for a curriculum relevant to their lives, fulfilling their desire to understand the particularities of national...
Second, the descriptions I read of the activity of the opponents of Herrnstein's analysis certainly struck me as forms of harassment. I also consider the content of some placards and leaflets used to express opposition to Hernnstein as unacceptable forms of opposition in a university community...
Alan J. Garfinkel, a graduate student and UAG member, opposed Newman, and said Hernnstein's article was "hardline racism, but more palitable to the community" since it gives the public a statistical basis for prejudice...