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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purpose of making the change was twofold. On the one hand to remove archaicism from the paper, and on the other to confront people with the fact that language does carry biases, and that these biases matter. Its impact was intended to influence those who work on the paper as much as those who read it. But the impact was negated...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

...matter of satisfying those who feel aggrieved, it is a matter of acknowledging that the feeling is real. DuBois would have been sympathetic to the Black student far more than he would have been to Bloom. One of DuBois' central tasks was to show the important contributions of Black culture, to show that what he termed the "Sorrow Songs," the Negro spirituals, were the equivalent of Shakespeare...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

...assumed that the civil rights movement was about the irrelevancy of race, which is why conservatives so fondly quote King about people being judged "not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." But the larger point was that race does matter, and that it will only cease to matter once we as a nation confront it head on, determine what it means to us and why it continues to hold meaning...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

...have lost sight of that, and that is the danger. Our world, and our attitude to that world, affords us few occasions to contemplate the morality of our conduct. Demands for sensitivity are opportunities more than accusations. They are a challenge. Otherwise the tables will remain separate, no matter how many other changes may come to pass. President...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

...matter how many students show up for the two courses Leyser plans to teach this spring, the British historian says he plans to continue his "lifetime's work" of making the esoterica of German medieval history accessible to history students...

Author: By Kristen L. Parkinson, | Title: Illuminating the Dark Ages | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

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