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...Peterson says that as long as Harvard is not restricted, the benefits usually outweigh the drawbacks. He compares these grants with the situation a black student sometimes faces. "Shouldn't he take a fellowship to finance his education even if the money originally came from a fortune originating from slave exploitation?" he asks. Peterson believes he should...
Among the more ambitious efforts will be ABC's twelve-hour serialization of Alex Haley's Roots, scheduled to start on Jan. 23. A semifictional history, Roots traces Haley's ancestry from Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka African youth captured by slave traders in 1767. ABC has invested more than $6 million in the production, which will be televised over eight consecutive evenings-a scheduling experiment matched only by ABC's coverage of the 1976 Summer Olympics...
...ashamed of my grandparents for being slaves," Ralph Ellison once wrote. "I am only ashamed for having at one time been ashamed." For all its cumbersomeness and speculative weak spots, Herbert Gutman's study has pried open an exit from black historical shame. Regardless of the later trials of Northern unemployment and additional problems that further study will undoubtedly point out, the message for slave history seems clear. The Sambo stereotype will just have to shuffle...
...direct a first-class Iolanthe. Now he's back as Frederic, the pirate apprentice, and he's even better than ever. His mellow tenor ably navigates the vagaries of Sullivan's music, and the expressions of dolefulness and misgiving his face so readily assumes are perfect for the benighted slave of duty...
...analyzing slave registers, marriage records during Reconstruction and later census data, Gutman found that the two-parent household and long-lasting marriages have been typical among blacks for most of their American experience. In the slave quarters, marital fidelity was highly regarded and defended, but premarital sex was tolerated, and no stigma was attached to illegitimacy. Except when marriages were broken by the sale of one spouse, the clear tendency was for stable, long-lasting slave marriages. In some cases, marriages even survived successful escapes by one spouse. Gutman quotes a Natchez, Miss., slave overseer who said that slaves...