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Panelists pointed out that no Black women appeared on the syllabus of Winthrop Professor of History Stephen A. Thernstrom's class, "Race and Race Relations Since the Great Depression...
...healthy biosphere. Seeing earth as a whole erases the illusion that humanity is separate from the natural order. For that reason alone, The Home Planet (Addison-Wesley; $19.95), an elegant compilation of photos taken during American and Soviet space missions, might be the first text in a syllabus for environmental re-education. In quotes accompanying the pictures, cosmonauts and astronauts from more than a dozen nations struggle to express the transcendental experience of seeing how life has invested our planet with a luminous beauty. Writes Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov: "So touchingly alone, our home must be defended like a holy...
...Feminism seeded the democratization of art," says Schapiro. Traditionalists may snicker, but under its influence mainstream critical discourse has broadened to consider the social, historical and political contexts in which art is produced. Rediscovered female artists are not listed in every syllabus, but more and more students, art educators point out, are eager to learn about ignored talents. How to select which ones to study? Says Spero: "It's so subjective. It always comes down to that old chestnut, quality." Whether feminists like it or not, the viewer's quest for quality may be as fundamental, and inevitable...
...pressure to hire women, and blue-chip firms recruited aggressively on campus. "It really turned me off," says Burns, who backs several feminist causes but can compete very nicely on her own. Instead she chose Bloomingdale's state-of-the-art executive-training program and burned up the syllabus. "I worked 10 hours a day, seven days a week," she says, "but it was exhilarating...
...state task force concluded that "African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans have all been victims of an intellectual and educational oppression . . . Negative characterizations, or the absence of positive references, have had a terribly damaging effect on the psyche of young people." In urging a revised syllabus, the task force argued, "Children from European culture will have a less arrogant perspective of being part of a group that has 'done it all.' " Many intellectuals are outraged. Political scientist Andrew Hacker of Queens College lambastes a task-force suggestion that children be taught how "Native Americans were here...