Word: jeffrieses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Few people will dispute that individuals' racial or ethnic background informs their world-views, especially in a society as race-conscious as ours. But so do a lot of other factors--like gender, class, sexual orientation and religion. That's the only way to explain why the only thing shared...
First, let me start by saying that in my past three years at Harvard the South Asian Association has never taken a stance in campus politics. Then, earlier this year the SAA took its first political stance by adding our name to the coalition condemning Leonard Jeffries' racist attitudes. As...
In this sense, then, "[v]ulgar cultural nationalists...like Allan Bloom or Leonard Jeffrey...are whistling in the wind." Whether they falsely assert Anglo-American culture as universal (a la Bloom) or "lay claim to the ideal of 'blackness' as an ideology or a quasi religion, totalized and essentialized into...
"For example, after the Jeffries thing, I thinkit would have been great if the Foundation hadgotten the Black students and the Jewish studentstogether to talk about this," Katz said. "Butinstead, people are trading letters through TheCrimson, and nothing is being done to solve theseproblems."
"The Leonard Jeffries incident really affectedme personally...the racial tensions I didn'texpect," said candidate Leemore S. Dafny '95. "Ithink all of the events on campus are a big signthat the Foundation has to be intensified."