Word: token
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Likewise, the staff somehow thinks that for Harvard to seek out Latino professors is "demeaning." A Latino professor at Harvard wouldn't be a token but a long-overdue pioneer. Was the first Black student to go to a white public school in the South a "token...
...Latino applicants is a patronizing diminuition of the very real anger that many feel. Is integration "demeaning?" Harvard's continual failure to diversify its faculty undercuts its ability to offer the wide range of perspectives so vital to academic discourse. A Latino professor at Harvard, wouldn't be a token any more than was the first Black student at Harvard, or the first female professor...
...times when rigorous scholarship and the pursuit of truth were valued above the feel-good campus politics of militant minorities. If white males are the leading thinkers in a field--as they are in almost every real academic discipline--we should read their work, and not the token work of some sloppy scholar who just happens to be a woman, a Black or a Latino (or all of the above...
...even Ezra admits a few token doubts. "Hardball is an inconsistent game," he said. "Anyone on a good streak could beat anybody else...
...need or desire for an Ethnic Studies program or department, lists only two courses which relate to Asian American Studies. These two courses, to be taught by a visiting professor, were postponed until the '93-94 academic year, and no move was made to replace them. Hence, the token courses offered were taken away, by chance, more or less, and there were no Asian American Studies courses offered for the '92-93 academic year--a concrete program would have prevented this...