REPLY: Curtin on `Ghettoization
Harold_G.Marcus (22634MGR@MSU.EDU)
Mon, 3 Apr 1995 15:48:00 EDT
FROM HGM: Thankyou timothy Burke for your thoughful communication. I think it
has to do with craven administrators who do see certain jobs as minority jobs.
Having just read a response in the Chronicle by black scholars answering Cur
tin, I think they are on the wrong target. Perhaps Curtin's use of
ghettoization was incendiary, but he points out a common held set of notions.
The response called him racist for identifying what he considers a problem.
This is incendiary too. I agree that there are many jobs held by whites; and
this year, one of my white students got a job, whereas one of my really good
black students struck out. It is nonetheless disheartening for young people to
know that there is extra-academic qualification which renders their candidacy
nugatory: ie Duke U. Some will say turn about is fair play, etc., but surely
such a judgement is wrong-headed.