Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recognize them now, how can we leave Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. DuBois, Virginia Woolf, Simone De Beauvoir or Zora Neale Hurston off of our lists of contributors to Western civilization...
Unless we would hold that the past decades have wrought no change in our society, then the traditional approach to the study of Western civilization is seriously flawed. By removing those thinkers from our characterization of Western civilization, we are defining ourselves as we were, not as we are, or as we should strive...
...deny the validity of studying Aristotle, whose ideas most certainly shaped much of Western culture. Or Shakespeare or Milton or Dante, who wrote some of the most beautiful works in history...
...present students with a "Great Books" or "Western Civilization" class which omits modern work and the work of those who are not white or not male, you are hurting students in two ways...
...have Historical Studies, Literature and Arts, Science and Social Analysis. It would be unfair to deny scholars of different cultures their credit for offering non-white, non-male course in these areas, but for the most part, "Western Civ" abounds...