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History Lesson
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History Lesson
In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that Greek culture had been stolen from Africa and that Jews were responsible for the slave trade. This book tells the disturbing story of what happened when she spoke out. Lefkowitz quickly learned that to investigate the origin and meaning of myths composed by people who have for centuries been dead and buried is one thing, but it is quite another to critique myths that living people take very seriously. She also found that many in academia were reluctant to challenge the fashionable idea that truth is merely a form of opinion. For her insistent defense of obvious truths about the Greeks and the Jews, Lefkowitz was embroiled in turmoil for a decade. She faced institutional indifference, angry colleagues, reverse racism, anti-Semitism, and even a lawsuit intended to silence her. In History Lesson Lefkowitz describes what it was like to experience directly the power of both postmodernism and compensatory politics. She offers personal insights into important issues of academic values and political correctness, and she suggests practical solutions for the divisive and painful problems that arise when a political agenda takes precedence over objective scholarship. Her forthright tale uncovers surprising features in the landscape of higher education and an unexpected need for courage from those who venture there.


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Title of ebook: History Lesson
ISBN: 9780300145199
parent-ISBN: 9780300126594
Publisher: Yale University Press
Internet download file size: 875 kb
Pages: 208
Published: 10-2008
Released online for download: 10-01-2008
Author of eBook: Lefkowitz, Mary
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History Lesson

A Race Odyssey

Contents

Introduction............................................1 ONE A Racist Incident?.................................15 TWO Discovering Afrocentrism...........................26 THREE Two Views of Ancient History.....................45 FOUR Turning Myths into History........................58 FIVE A New Anti-Semitism...............................82 SIX Truth or Slander?..................................95 SEVEN Reparations?.....................................105 EIGHT A Racist Polemic?................................115 NINE Turning History into Fiction......................131 Epilogue................................................148 Notes...................................................161 Acknowledgments.........................................189 Index...................................................191

Chapter One

A Racist Incident?

Whenever I think about it, which is often, it becomes harder to imagine how Wellesley College could have been the setting for the controversy tha ... read full excerpt from History Lesson ebook



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