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...eight years out, in 1999, after a stint as a critic at the Village Voice, that Whitehead began to make noise with the release of his first novel, “The Intuitionist,” which follows a black, female elevator inspector during a time of racial integration. Cameron Leader-Picone, a graduate student in the African-American Studies Department whose dissertation includes a chapter on Whitehead, says, “‘The Intuitionist’ was really big coming out of the gate. It became a major novel immediately. I had him assigned...
...commemorated their own Spring '69 takeover every five years with a weeklong series of events. They're even about to commemorate the 40th anniversary. Granted, their takeover has probably been harder to recover from, since it deals not just with rowdy students hating on the administration, but also racial issues. The Afro-American Society--all of a couple of dozen students--was protesting worse academic conditions for black students. But when they were taking over the student union, one former protester says, they did so very politely...
...Carpio—an associate professor of African and African-American Studies—and Jigna Desai—a visiting associate professor in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department—praise a newly-proposed ethnic studies program, which they said would allow students to discuss questions of racial and ethnic identity in an academic setting. “People end up talking in dorm rooms or over this kind of food, which are very powerful media,” she said over a table of desserts from Finale’s. “But the idea...
...eight years out, in 1999, after a stint as a critic at the Village Voice, that Whitehead began to make noise with the release of his first novel, “The Intuitionist,” which follows a black, female elevator inspector during a time of racial integration. Cameron Leader-Picone, a graduate student in the African-American Studies Department whose dissertation includes a chapter on Whitehead, says, “‘The Intuitionist’ was really big coming out of the gate. It became a major novel immediately. I had him assigned...
...part of his homage to Faurisson - and presumably to increase its offensiveness - Dieudonné arranged for an actor dressed as a Jewish concentration camp detainee to come on stage and deliver the decoration. On April 8, French prosecutors announced they would try Dieudonné on May 5 for inciting racial hatred. If convicted, Dieudonné faces a maximum six months in prison and a $30,000 fine, which would be the sixth punishment for anti-Semitic statements that courts have slapped him with since...