Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been," says Shattuck Professor of Government Paul E. Peterson, an expert in American social policy, "one of those extraordinary coincidences...
Hugh P. Liebert '00 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House...
First, Cultural Rhythms is a minefield of convoluted social logic. The premise behind the show is quite simple: the "culture"-free audience observes a parade of "cultural" student groups on stage as they display "ethnicity." Somehow along the way, the audience is supposed to learn, engage and share in our multicultural campus. Unfortunately, little learning actually takes place as they display ethnicity through dance and song...
...couch Cultural Rhythms in the language of diversity? In the end note to this year's program, Counter tosses words like "race," "culture," "ethnicity," "cultural expression," "differences" and "sharing" into a PR stew that may taste good but satisfies no one with an appetite for deeper engagement of serious social issues...
However, just because Cultural Rhythms is "about" diversity doesn't mean that it actually pushes us in a direction we ought to be moving. It is easy to forget, but "diversity" is not the same as social justice. The time has come for us all to re-examine the dangerous logic implicit in some of our "rahrah diversity" claims. True progressive thought, according to Professor Cornel West, overcomes racialized ways of thinking and replaces it with moral thinking. It dares to critique even the "minority" component of the establishment to work towards social justice for all disempowered peoples...