Posted on November 7, 2009 by Celucien Joseph
How Eurocentric Is Your Day?
by M. Shahid Alam / November 5th, 2009
At the outset of the classes I teach, I always address the question of bias in the social sciences. In one course – on the history of the global economy – this is the central theme. It critiques Eurocentric biases in several leading Western [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2009 by Celucien Joseph
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to [...]
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