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In On The Scene, The Harvard Crimson first examines race relations on American college campuses. Harvard students grappled with the issue this spring when City University of New York Professor Leonard Jeffries fisted the campus. The nation joined us when the Rodney King verdict fell and riots erupted in Los...
For instance, Feldman finds the concerns raised by many Jews at Harvard over the Leonard Jeffries speech, the Harvard Foundation exchange in The Crimson and the Dunster House "kosher toaster" debacle certainly valid. But he questions the extent to which the debates that emerged were "functional."
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...