LEADER 03840nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910455080703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08945-5 010 $a9786612089459 010 $a0-300-14519-5 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300145199 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764819 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23049962 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000171955 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11152188 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000171955 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10150552 035 $a(PQKB)10673930 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420432 035 $a(DE-B1597)485002 035 $a(OCoLC)666930730 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300145199 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420432 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10315693 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208945 035 $a(OCoLC)923593550 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764819 100 $a20071025d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHistory lesson$b[electronic resource] $ea race odyssey /$fMary Lefkowitz 210 $aNew Haven, Conn. $cYale University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-12659-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 161-187) and index. 327 $aA racist incident? -- Discovering afrocentrism -- Two views of ancient history -- Turning myths into history -- A new anti-Semitism -- Truth or slander? -- Reparations? -- A racist polemic? -- Turning history into fiction. 330 $aIn the early 1990's, 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 story of what happened when she spoke out. Lefkowitz quickly learned that to investigate the origin and meaning of myths composed by people who have for centuries been dead and buried is one thing, but it is quite another to critique myths that living people take very seriously. She also found that many in academia were reluctant to challenge the fashionable idea that truth is merely a form of opinion. For her insistent defense of obvious truths about the Greeks and the Jews, Lefkowitz was embroiled in turmoil for a decade. She faced institutional indifference, angry colleagues, reverse racism, anti-Semitism, and even a lawsuit intended to silence her. In History Lesson Lefkowitz describes what it was like to experience directly the power of both postmodernism and compensatory politics. She offers personal insights into important issues of academic values and political correctness, and she suggests practical solutions for the divisive and painful problems that arise when a political agenda takes precedence over objective scholarship. Her forthright tale uncovers surprising features in the landscape of higher education and an unexpected need for courage from those who venture there. 606 $aHistory$xStudy and teaching (Higher)$zMassachusetts 606 $aPostmodernism and higher education 606 $aRacism in higher education 606 $aAntisemitism in higher education 606 $aAcademic freedom 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHistory$xStudy and teaching (Higher) 615 0$aPostmodernism and higher education. 615 0$aRacism in higher education. 615 0$aAntisemitism in higher education. 615 0$aAcademic freedom. 676 $a907.1/17447 700 $aLefkowitz$b Mary R.$f1935-$0156203 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455080703321 996 $aHistory lesson$92474636 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01935nam 2200409 n 450 001 996386593303316 005 20221108041016.0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000613439 035 $a(EEBO)2240897048 035 $a(UnM)99839058 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000613439 100 $a19901126d1597 uy | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn||||a|bb| 200 00$aOf symboleography the second part$b[electronic resource] $econteyning fower treatises, first, of fines and concordes, 2. Of common recoueries, 3. Of offences and indictments, 4. Of compromises and arbitrements. Whereunto is annexed another treatise of equitie, the iurisdiction, and proceedings of the high Court of Chauncery: of supplications, bils, and aunsweres, and of certain writs and commissions, issuing thence, and there also retornable. Newly corrected, and much enlarged, by William West of the Inner Temple Esquire, first author thereof 210 $aAt London $cPrinted by Thomas Wight, and Bonham Norton$dAnno Do. 1597 215 $a[480] p 300 $aAt foot of title: Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis. 300 $aSignatures: *² A-H I⁴ 2A 3A-3F 3G⁶ 4A 4B² a-m n² . 300 $a"One treatise of the Chauncerie" has divisional title on a1r. 300 $aReproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. 330 $aeebo-0014 606 $aConveyancing$zGreat Britain$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aEquity pleading and procedure$zGreat Britain$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aForms (Law)$zGreat Britain$vEarly works to 1800 615 0$aConveyancing 615 0$aEquity pleading and procedure 615 0$aForms (Law) 700 $aWest$b William$ffl. 1568-1594.$01001542 801 0$bCu-RivES 801 1$bCu-RivES 801 2$bCStRLIN 801 2$bWaOLN 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996386593303316 996 $aOf symboleography the second part$92362906 997 $aUNISA