--Ken:
Different clusters of activists are now managing universities: if you escape from one cluster, you enter into the jaws of another. More attorneys are being hired on campuses. Academy is no longer what it used to be when I joined in 1977. And members of the younger generation are so rude at conferences. We were trained to criticize most politely, and there was no way I would ever say to my elders, "You have not read this book or that book!"
TF
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Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 5:37 PM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: A Black Professor Trapped in an Anti-Racist HellYou are right michael. There is a kind of historical irony that coming on the heels of the struggle to overcome redlining and discrimination, the fight for integration, is then succeeded by black students choosing to create a black dorm.
I could easily understand our chinese students here at msu choosing a dorm with chinese students—there is the communality of language and customs, that many people would naturally want. The exceptional student would want to live with others, not with sameness, and there is that to be found here as well.
The interesting point lies in how we are to respond to that piece moses posted. It speaks to another time and day for people like me. I retired just before this new age with its adamancy emerged, and would not fit in at all.
My close friend reports to me now that the rising tide of decolonialist theorizing is demonizing postcolonialism for having failed to free itself of the jackets of racism. The currents of antagonism we see in the article moses circulated embodies that struggle, and it looks, from the distance of my retirement chair, to be a painful internecine struggle.
Ken
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Ken -
What you do because you want to do it is different from what you do because you have to do it. Those same students who chose to live together as black students on their own volition would probably raise hell if they were forced to do so by some human authority. I guess it's a part of the natural human quest for freedom and unabated confraternity.
MOA
On Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 09:02:33 AM CDT, Harrow, Kenneth <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:
Freedom cuts both ways. When i came to east lansing, for a job in michigan state university, in 1966, black people could not buy a house within city limits. That ended the year after i arrived. Dormitories were not segregated on campus. But when black students were given the option of choosing their own dorm, a black dormitory was formed which they opted for. Many said they were more comfortable living in a black student environment rather than with whites.
Ken
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: A Black Professor Trapped in an Anti-Racist Hell
Briefly
Re- "In 2022, however, I was told that the "Critical Black Studies" students would live and learn separately, creating a fully "black space." My "Anti-Oppressive Studies" students were separated from them. Instead of participating in a summer community of 32 high-school students, my group was to be a community of 12 (that would dwindle to nine by the time of the mutiny)."
An expert on group psychology would probably say that this was surely the dangerous moment of separation, departure unto an apartheid-type segregation during which the other group's identity must have festered, probably nurtured - unopposed by the Black Power group…
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