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...Arnold Rampersad, currently the Kimballprofessor of English at Stanford University, was acolleague of West's at Princeton...
...Rampersad termed West's return to Harvard as"the turning point of his life." Newspapers suchas the New York Times and the Boston Globeannounced a major "coup" for Harvard when hisappointment was announced on Nov. 10, 1993. Gatesand University President Neil L. Rudenstinelavished praise on West and heralded therejuvenated Afro-American studies department...
...think Princeton has ever recoveredreally," Rampersad says. "It was a tremendous lossfor us, but it was important that [West] be happyand his work be maximized...
...chosen to be a public intellectual, andhe brings to that wide learning and very sharppower of intellect," Rampersad says. "He isseeking to bridge the gap between the academy andthe world outside, especially on race...
Read today, the simplicity of that sentence seems shocking. Robinson never, despite all the reasons his society gave him for doing so, regretted the color of his skin. He simply believed that race should not affect personal freedoms. He educated, at great sacrifice, his era. His lesson lives in Rampersad's book...