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From the Publisher: 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 sto...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lefkowitz, Mary R., 1935-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Lefkowitz, Mary R., > 1935-
Wellesley College.
Wellesley (Mass.) > Wellesley College.
History > Study and teaching (Higher) > Massachusetts.
Postmodernism and higher education.
Racism in higher education.
Antisemitism in higher education.
Academic freedom.
Postmodernisme et enseignement supérieur.
Racisme dans l'enseignement supérieur.
Antisémitisme dans l'enseignement supérieur.
Liberté de l'enseignement.
HISTORY > Study & Teaching.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Educators.
History > Study and teaching (Higher)
Geschichtswissenschaft
Rassismus
Akademische Freiheit
Antisemitismus
Geschichtswissenschaft > Postmoderne > USA > Memoiren.
Afrozentrismus > Geschichtsschreibung > USA > Memoiren.
Geschichtsschreibung > Afrozentrismus > USA > Memoiren.
Political correctness > Geschichtswissenschaft > USA > Memoiren.
Postmoderne > Geschichtswissenschaft > USA > Memoiren.
Geschichtswissenschaft > Political correctness > USA > Memoiren.
Geschichtswissenschaft.
Akademische Freiheit.
Rassismus.
Antisemitismus.
Massachusetts.
Wellesley (Mass.) > Wellesley College > Memoiren.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1: Racist incident?
  • 2: Discovering afrocentrism
  • 3: Two views of ancient history
  • 4: Turning myths into history
  • 5: New anti-Semitism
  • 6: Truth or slander?
  • 7: Reparations?
  • 8: Racist polemic?
  • 9: Turning history into fiction
  • Epilogue.

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