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During the course of his speech, Professor Anthony Martin stated that the first reference to Africans being created innately inferior and for the service of other people is in the Babylonian Talmud. He quoted several doctoral dissertations, one by a Jewish scholar, that supported his claim that the Babylonian Talmud exists as the first text to place a racial component on the cursing of Ham and is the first instance of a work bigoted against Africans in the European tradition. At no time during his address to the participants of the teach-in did Professor Martin make reference...
...breathtaking scholar," Schor said yesterday. "One of the things I personally like is that she's looking at the history of everyday life from the point of view of a household, which is very refreshing and interesting.... It also seems quite clear to me she's a fabulous teacher. That's very important...
Summers--who was given tenure at Harvard at age 28--is described as "intellectually overpowering." Kennedy, a Rhodes Scholar, is credited with "helping to reshape the way Americans think about race...
...list ranges from Rhodes Scholars like Kennedy to self-proclaimed "Roads Scholar" Wayne W. Merisel '82, the head of the Bonner Foundation, a charity organization based in Princeton, New Jersey...
...does seem strange that more attention hasn't been focused on the fact that the two scholars gathered much of their data from questionable sources. In the acknowledgments to The Bell Curve, for example, Murray and Herrnstein say they "benefited especially from the advice" of Richard Lynn, a scholar who in 1991 wrote in the neo-eugenicist journal Mankind Quarterly that "the Caucasoids and the Mongoloids are the only two races that have made any significant contribution to civilization." Then there's J. Phillipe Rushton, a Canadian psychologist who suggested in 1986 that Nazi Germany's military prowess was connected...