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...that defines it. While black intellectuals have attempted to remain ivory-tower-objective, the right wing has launched a multi-layered attack on the credibility of the whole field of ethnic studies, and the liberal establishment has attempted to recast the field as a producer of “diversity?? and a facility for cultural tourism...
...with the national values of a country that has marginalized them ethnically or socioeconomically. For many young women, the headscarf is as much a symbol of repudiation of France as it is a token of belonging to Islam. The intent of the new law is not to undermine cultural diversity??there is no calling into question religious freedom outside the secular setting of public education. It will, however, disarm students of the tools they use in their public schools to define themselves as separate from or even in conflict with each other and republican values. This assurance that...
Vest’s work on improving faculty diversity??and in particular appointing more women to senior positions within both the faculty and the administration—has garnered approbation from within the university and across the nation, according to Nancy H. Hopkins ’64, a professor of biology at MIT and one of the school’s foremost advocates for gender equality in research...
...diversity??what some have called “white” affirmative action—made its way into the report as well. In a small-print footnote squeezed into the bottom of page 22, the schools wrote that “socioeconomic status” was given “significant favorable consideration” by all their admissions boards...
...harassment because, although your skirt may be short, your voice is still low. Transgression on Drag Night might make you feel good, but it makes a mockery of trans people and trans lives. Drag Night, at least in its current incarnation, doesn’t bring “diversity?? or “tolerance” to Harvard (two claims made in a recent Drag Night e-mail). Instead it makes gender transgression something to shave about, dress up and sing a song for. After the night is done, we can go back to our dorm rooms...