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booklady
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Middleman minorities must be very different from their customers.This differentness—& the social withdrawal needed to preserve it in their children—then leave the middleman minorities vulnerable to charges of “clannishness” by political & other demagogues. Moreover, the lack of knowledge of either the business or social imperatives of middlemen by outsiders leaves the majority population vulnerable to exploitation.
— Jul 03, 2020 06:41AM
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booklady
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Much has been written about the sheer neglect of history in our educational institutions, with students able to graduate from some of the most prestigious colleges in the land without having had a single course in the history of their own country or of the world. Far more insidious and dangerous, however, is the promotion of a history created as a projection into the past of current notions and agendas.
— Jul 22, 2020 10:53AM
booklady
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In this context, it is explicable, though hardly justified, that the history of successful black schools has attracted virtually no interest from either historians or educators.That history does not advance any contemporary political agenda, though it might help advance the education of a whole generation of black students.
— Jul 19, 2020 12:45PM
booklady
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History is too often the handmaiden of contemporary visions or agendas. Accomplishments among blacks are often either magnified or downplayed, or glided over entirely, according to whether these accomplishments do or do not advance the agenda of portraying victimhood or struggles against victimhood.
— Jul 19, 2020 12:44PM
