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Word: pouissant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1991-1991
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...were scholars of American race relations and the Black experience--a rich cadre of intellectuals including our own Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., Dean Alvin Pouissant and Professor Sara Lawrence Lightfoot--not called upon to help the nation interpret this most tangled of dramas? To confine that function to handlers, lawyers and the interest group leaders served to deprive us all of vital insights on the relationship between race and sex and to estrange the public from an understanding of government. It further perpetuated the unfortunate view that Blacks are always the subjects of analysis, but, incapable of being analytical...

Author: By Peter J. Gomes, | Title: Dirty Little Secrets | 10/19/1991 | See Source »

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