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E-PrinceThe University is currently reviewing a proposal to offer a Latino studies program, an issue that has been on the administration’s table for more than 10 years.
If approved, the Latino studies program may be available to students as ...
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Despues de graduarse con una concentracion en "estudios latinos"
que se hace con esta?
What's next, a certificate in Asian-American Studies? A major in Latino Studies? This is what happens when Marta Tienda and other Tenured Radicals gain power at a place like Princeton. Sociology at Princeton and in this country has become pure political advocacy. Where's Robert Nisbet or Digby Baltzell when you need them?
The last two comments posted on this article (the first, I take it, in good humor, and the second in amusingly shrill anti-intellectual outrage) exemplify the difficulty that Princeton has had in keeping up with the academy of the twentieth century, let alone the current one. By sheer willpower and spending power, and opposed tooth and nail by dunderheaded reactionaries among its alumni and within it, Princeton has made itself a significant center of African American studies over the last few years. This has done nothing but improve the university's reputation among significant portions of the scholarly world, where it can often be seen as hopelessly behind the times and bound up in a stodgy and outdated version of ivory-towerism. But not so much has changed: let someone suggest that Latino studies has a place here, and suddenly the same crowd that opposed African American studies -- and before that, opposed coeducation, and before that, opposed integration, and before that, required loyalty oaths, and before that, tried to keep Jews out of the university -- pipes up again in outrage that the Tenured Radicals have taken over. Nothing could be further from the truth about Princeton; even those taking flak as "radicals" over issues like this are, by the standards of the rest of academia if not the Dinesh D'Souzas of the world, the staunchest middle-of-the-road moderates.