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Jaynes said that Wallace liked to lose himself in movies, especially his favorite, The Bourne Identity??a movie about an amnesiac searching for his identity...
...tension between teaching and scholarship has always been at the forefront of Harvard’s identity??and the quality and relative happiness of the Faculty has long been at the center of its campus quarrels...
It’s possible that the study of identity??what it means, how it is formed, and what role it plays in social interactions—does possess an independent methodology and deserves to be a separate discipline. In this context, the Faculty’s mantra that “ethnic studies are inherently comparative” makes perfect sense; the study of identity should be abstracted from the experiences of particular groups in the same way that history is abstracted from its archeological and philological fodder. And in this general field, Harvard already has courses...
...social groups. But in fact all kinds of people are working on all kinds of issues in these areas. Why is this? For one, it is often the case that the most trenchant critiques of concepts such as “race” or “sexual identity?? are coming out of these so-called “identity-based disciplines.” Also, the putatively narrow concerns addressed in these fields engage many of the most pressing and far-reaching concerns of the present, such as racial profiling, international labor markets and the politics...
Although he said we were not, at least “not yet,” he pointed to the “resurgence of Muslim conscience and identity?? and the “shift in demographics” towards a younger, and therefore more politically involved, population as possible reasons...