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Secondly, your article seems to support David Riesman and Christopher Jencks' article in the Harvard Education Review. What you, Riesman, and Jencks are unable to perceive is that each of those Black--and I might add there are some white, too--"purveyors of super-American, ultra-bourgeois prejudices and aspirations," "academic disaster areas," and "fourth-rate institutions at the tail end of the academic procession" are attempting to do something that those first-rate institutions on the summit of the academic procession refuse to do: they are going into disaster areas and attempting to help students who have been denied...
...conclusion. I should like to point out to you and to any other Harvard student, faculty member, or administrator that you were not invited to repudiate Riesman or Jencks, that Shaw University realizes that students are caught up in "a cycle of miseducation and deprivation," and that Shaw University is attempting to do something about it. Shaw is not a black school with white ideas; it is a Black school with Black Ideas. Black people think, too! Major James Davis Jr. Shaw University...
...Negro colleges seem likely to survive. They will continue to recruit most of their students from all-Negro Southern high schools and to send a substantial proportion of their graduates back to teach in those high schools, unable to break out of the cycle of mis-education and deprivation. (Riesman and Jencks...
...Shaw people hoped that the tutors would repudiate the Riesman article, our role was absurdly miscast. We were not impressed with how Shaw has improved -- we were over-whelmed by how damaging it still...
...administration was offended by the tutors in either role; we did nothing for them but raise the ghost of the Riesman article. We became inescapable reminders that not only was Shaw in most respects no exception among Negro colleges, but nobody on campus--not a dean...