Stranger in His Own House: A Reply to Phillip Richards: Replies
Richards, Phillip
THERE is not space enough to answer all of Martin Kilson's characterizations of myself and my essay. Some of these go to the heart of the question as to why I wrote the essay itself. Let me say...
...I attempted to write my article in the spirit of that view...
...And the desegregation of schools will be one site where that debate will be most intense...
...I subscribe to the principle that black faculty ought to inspire cosmopolitan humanism and a fidelity to high academic standards among their black students...
...DISSENT / Spring 1999 n 91...
...In other respects, it is probably more useful to discuss the considerable area of my agreement with Kilson...
...In this connection the perceptions of black faculty and students are very important to the record...
...Let me say in this regard that the integration of elite universities in the late twentieth century is an important part of the democratization of American institutions...
...The various meanings of integration in American society will be debated for some time...
...That in and of itself would make the observation of black students on white campuses of historical as well as topical interest...
Vol. 46 • April 1999 • No. 2
