Civilization and its malcontents. (Stanford University's humanities curriculum revisions)
From: National Review
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Date: 10/13/1989
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Author: Hook, Sidney
Civilization and Its Malcontents
THE CURRENT crisis of education in the United States may legitimately be characterized as an attempt to politicize the curriculum itself. Those who have provoked it contend that the existing curriculum in the humanities is already politicized in virtue of the fact that its basic texts have been composed by Western white males and that, in consequence, the required courses are intrinsically infected with racism, sexism, and imperialism. The remedy ...
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