Black Unlike Me.(White Boy: A Memoir by Mark D. Naison) (book review)
Nation, The, July, 2002 by McMillian, John
WHITE BOY: A Memoir. By Mark D. Naison. Temple. 256 pp. $69.50. Paper $19.95.
Amid all the hubbub surrounding the defections of Professors Cornel West and K. Anthony Appiah from Harvard to Princeton recently, it went unmentioned that only thirty years ago, African-American studies as we know it today didn't even exist. Although the Kulturkampf of the 1960s touched many academic disciplines, it was the creation of black studies programs that led to the most rancorous debates on American campuses. British historian Marcus Cunliffe captured the scene well. Following a tour of American universities in the late 1960s, he reported, "Every spokesman was indulgent in spokesmanship, every apologist in apologias, every militant in militance.... Visually, one feels the...
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