Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rhodes Scholarship is often perceived as the gold medal of the academic world. But John W. McArthur, a decorated swimmer, said his latest victory is actually a "double-edged sword...
McArthur, a Vancouver native and this year's recipient of the 1998 Rhodes Scholarship for British Columbia, views the scholarship with mixed emotions...
Nenshi, who worked with 14 other Rhodes scholars at McKinsey & Co., said McArthur's selection assures him that the Rhodes Scholarship Committee knows what it is doing...
African-American studies, women's studies and Asian studies have broken into academic prominence in the last few decades, but to the consternation of many, a new field of scholarship that sees these as its logical predecessors is emerging: whiteness studies...
...been historically marginalized in American society in part because they are minorities. But the study of a majority is as legitimate and interesting, for social scientists at least, as the study of a minority. Whiteness studies should not celebrate white literature or a supposed white culture; rather, useful scholarship in the area engages the concept of being white in a society that first, differentiates between whites and non-whites and second, bestows privilege upon those that fit the description...