Word: inequalityã
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Furthermore, some fields—mainly those in the social sciences that deal with socially-pressing issues such as race, poverty and inequality??produce a large number of public intellectuals. “I think there is a high correlation between being a public intellectual and working on issues that are high on the public agenda,” says Wilson, a sociologist. “One of the reasons black scholars are disproportionately represented among public intellectuals is because they address issues such as race...
Throughout this primary campaign, Reich has demonstrated his passionate, principled commitment to the under-privileged. As he told the American Student Assistance Conference on Jan. 27, “A society concerned about widening inequality??and its corrosive effects on democracy, social solidarity and the moral authority of a state or nation—would logically turn its attention to increasing the supply of people capable of doing the work that the new economy rewards.” His visionary plans to revitalize education in Massachusetts, coupled with his intelligent proposals on health care and many other issues?...
...that this department here has taken on a kind of iconographic status in the realm of academia. One of the things that disturbs me is that we talk about that history—and history changes as we incorporate questions about race and power, equality and inequality??is that the only historian in the African-American studies department is Evelyn Higginbotham. And she is never mentioned within the cohort of folks who always seem to represent the field here. It seems to me that if the primary charge of that department is going to be to ask questions...