Word: scholarshipped
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...this regard, it would be difficult to expect Gates' scholarship to do anything other than to follow the trendy academic labels (e.g. deconstruction). It does...
...feel privileged to be able to make this appointment," President Neil Rudenstine said in a statement last week. "Professor Shearman is recognized throughout the world for his formidable contribution to scholarship and criticism in the field of Italian Renaissance art history...
...interview with The Harvard Gazette in1989, Shearman characterized his scholarship styleas comprehensive and deliberately unassuming...
...chairman of Harvard's black-studies department and the author of several volumes of dense literary theory as well as countless op-ed pieces on racial issues, Gates, 44, has become one of the nation's most influential intellectuals. In Colored People he turns from scholarship to autobiography and writes intimately about his childhood, his teenage religious fanaticism, a frustrated youthful romance with a white girl. Still, history is never distant from Gates' mind. His coming of age coincided with one of America's most tumultuous eras, as the civil rights movement propelled blacks from "the colored world...
...presentation of Guinier's own arguments directly after the quoted views of her critics drives home Stephen Carter's point that "many of the reporters who covered the Guinier story did not bother to read the scholarship about which they were writing...". In proof of this, an entire essay is devoted to the case against quotas, or what the author terms "tokenism." Here she argues persuasively that focusing on the number of Black representatives elected replaces political with electoral outcomes as the major cause for concern. For example, "one Black elected official proportionately represented on a small city council operating...