Black studies in focus

Heresy:

African American Studies has a leaden foot on the victimhood pedal, and its premise is rarely questioned.

You can lose your job with talk like that.

She broke a rule and got fired

The rule being Thou shalt not puncture a myth. For that she became an enemy of the people.

Innocence at home?

To be cleaned up

Huckleberry Finn is to be bowdlerized for various pragmatic reasons, no need to go into them here.

But de-niggerizing Huckleberry Finn doesn’t necessarily inoculate teachers from the danger of teaching that 19th century text in an offensive way. If anything, it might just give us all an inflated sense of protection from the most dishonorable aspects of our nation’s history.

Is this what we mean by post-racial? If so, it is a good example of the difference between repression and transcendence.

Thus John L. Jackson Jr. in The Chronicle of Higher Education.