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Harvard, 1968: The College is embroiled in a crisis Students, sparked by the assassination of Martin Luther King and a growing Black nationalist movement, are protesting for the creation of an Afro American Studies Department and greater recognition of undergraduate diversity. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has no tenured Black faculty members...
...period for me. I went into college not knowing I was going to be a play-wright, it was a period of great growth for me, one of the conflicts was that I began to be aware of Asian-American politics and literature and I went into an isolationist nationalist phase, and I think that's really important. At the same time, I knew even when I was in the phase that it should be only one step on a longer journey...
...Greenfeld does argue that as long as we live in a modern world we will indeed live in a nationalist world. If nationalism disappears, she writes, "the world in which we live will be no more, and another world, as distinct from the one we know as was the society of orders that it replaced, will replace it. This post-national world will be truly post-modern, for nationality is the constitutive principle of modernity...
...book--that nationalism is not a uniform phenomenon," she says. "It is the basis of the best in our world... and of the worst." While at first glance such a statement may seem a concession to particularism--that is, an apology that no conclusion can be drawn from the nationalist experience--such an understanding of Greenfeld's reluctance to make sweeping generalizations would be erroneous...
Greenfeld does see a common denominator among the different "nationalisms": their function as status guarantors. "If there is something that unifies [nations], it is this guarantee of dignity," says Greenfeld, "but they can provide dignity in many different ways, which explains the variations between different nationalist experiences...