Word: neglectment
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...latest link in a long chain of affronteries to the democratic process at Harvard. The odyssey of the Afro-American Studies Department, won by the sheer guts and conviction of students in the late 1960s, and castrated by the administration's patient patronizing and violent hatchetwaving; the insulting neglect with which the University has treated the widespread demand for Women's Studies; the even more outrageous impositions made on workers by Harvard as an employer, going to the point of actively participating in efforts to emasculate the national Affirmative Action program, even failing to comply with its own flaccid...
...clamor of students and Afro faculty for the original prospectus, the powers in Mass Hall set up the DuBois Institute. Second-class status is the mark of the Afro Department which is not consulted or notified about the establishment of a research center in Black studies. Benign neglect is the mark of a university which isolates its Black studies department from its complementary research center...
Today's rhetoric is "representative Chicano population" and "Chicano studies" and "systematic neglect." Systematic neglect! I mean, why not just carry it all the way: demands for "representative Chicano population" among Nobel winners, among the Boston Brahmins, in Little Italy...
...part of a more general, more subtle, and more sophisticated method of institutional racism. The total lack of a representative Chicano population at Harvard, the lack of Chicano faculty or courses, let alone a department (No concentration in Latin American Studies is offered), all testify to Harvard's systematic neglect of the Chicano population, or for that matter the Third World population...
...to?or explanation of?his long periods of self-neglect. Neither did his aides. It was a subject that was not discussed, the way a close family might ignore a behavioral peculiarity of a distinctly eccentric but very rich uncle...