View From a Height
Commentary from the Mile High City
Sunday, February 01, 2004

What Would We Do Without Critics?


Critics: African-American Studies Have Leftist Slant - FoxNews Headline


I particularly like this quote:



"The discipline, like most, is far too varied to make such generalizations," said Farah Griffin, director of Columbia University's Institute for Research in African-American Studies. "Rarely is there any focus on 'victimization,' though there is attention given to the history of a people who have experienced forced migration, enslavement, terrorism, legalized discrimination and random acts of violence and who have sought to counter that brutality through political, intellectual, and cultural means."





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