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Who Can Say "Nigger"? And Other ConsiderationsAuthor(s): Randall L. KennedySource: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 26, (Winter, 1999-2000), pp. 86-96Published by: The JBHE FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2999172Accessed: 07/05/2008 15:28

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Issue Table of ContentsJournal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 26, Winter, 1999-2000Front Matter [pp.2-159][Dedication: Inman E. Page 1853-1935] [p.1]Letters [p.5]News and ViewsA JBHE Report Card on the Progress of Black Faculty at the Nation's Leading Universities [pp.6-8]Walter Washington 1923-1999 [p.8]Caperton's Choice: Why the Strivers Scoring System Threatens the College Board [pp.9-12]How the Educational Testing Service Rid Itself of a Rebellious Negro Without Getting Sued [p.11]Money and Higher Education: Blacks Continue to Have a Steeper Hill to Climb [pp.13-16]The Quiet Removal of Black Students from the Best Campuses of the University of Florida [pp.17-19]The African-American Firebrand Who Heads the Gore Campaign [pp.20-21]The Importance of Preserving a Core of African Americans at the Most Prestigious Law Schools [pp.22-23]James Cheek Dishonored [pp.23-24]The Women of Spelman College, 1890 [p.24]Presidents of Black Colleges: They Earn on a Parity with Whites [p.25]The Stampede to Offer Internet Commerce Courses Has Bypassed the Black Business Schools [pp.26-27]Ashley Montagu 1905-1999 [p.27]The Transformation of the Racial Views of Harry Truman [pp.28-30]A Photographic Essay on Blackface Stereotypes [p.30]Recognition at Last: Ebony Rankings Notice the Importance of Black Educators [p.31]Professor Linda Gottfredson: Another Academic Advocate of Racial Differences in Intelligence [p.32]Ranking Black Colleges According to Their Alumni Listings in Who's Who [pp.33-35]The Ku Klux Klan Once Opposed the Creation of Private Schools [p.35]The Art of Statistical Deception: Some Economists are Racial Storytellers with a Special Weakness for Incomplete Data [p.36]The White Supremacist Who Picked a Fight with the Wrong University [pp.37-38]A Christian Institution Apologizes for Racial Segregation in the Past [p.38]Black Achievers, 1999: A Breakthrough Year for African Americans [p.39]The Recent Decline in Black Applications to Medical School [pp.40-41]Has Proposition 209 Discouraged Black Students from Seeking Places in Private Universities in California? [pp.42-43]Daisy Lee Gatson Bates 1914-1999 [p.44]University of Virginia: Will America's Great Cheerleader for Racial Diversity in Higher Education Lose Its Leadership Position? [pp.45-46]The Progress of Black Students and Faculty at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Law Schools [pp.48-50]Chris Gardner: No College But He's a Stunning Success [p.50]Uncle Sam Funds the College Education of Black Students from the District of Columbia [pp.51-52]Jervis Anderson 1932-1999 [p.51]African-American College Enrollments Reach an All-Time High [p.52]John Ashcroft: The Racially Challenged Senator from Missouri [p.53]Comer Vann Woodward 1908-1999 [p.54]When Will Phi Beta Kappa Repeal Its Rules of Race? [pp.55-57]Why are Black Colleges Toadying to This Profoundly Racist Organization? [pp.58-59]African Immigrants in the United States are the Nation's Most Highly Educated Group [pp.60-61]One Step Toward Bridging the Racial Computer Gap [p.62]The U.S. Postal Service Honors Black Educators [p.63]Oprah Goes to College [p.64]Virginia Tech Struggles with Racial Diversity [p.65]He's the Best-Educated Man in the GOP: But Alan Keyes Gets no Respect [pp.66-67]"Nigger Creeks" are Gone but There's Still a Lot of Leftover Racism on the Maps of the United States [pp.67-68]Black Women Far Outdistance Black Men in Doctoral Degree Awards: But How are They Doing Compared to White Women? [p.69]Black Without a College Education: The Forgotten Majority of African Americans [pp.70-71]Two African Americans Awarded Rhodes Scholarships [pp.72-73]Charles Hamilton Houston as an Undergraduate Student at Amherst College [p.73]The Racial Integration of Historically Black Universities: High Praise for the State of North Carolina [pp.74-75]Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Black Scholars are Almost Never on the White House Guest List [pp.76-77]In Memoriam C. Vann Woodward 1908-1999 [p.77]Test Coaching Comes to Public Grade Schools: Young Blacks Face a New Hurdle [p.78]

Vital Signs [pp.79-85]Who Can Say "Nigger"? And Other Considerations [pp.86-96]Race-Sensitive Admissions in Higher Education: Commentary on How the Supreme Court is Likely to Rule [pp.97-101]The Three-Cushion Shot That Won Colin Powell's Support for Affirmative Action in Higher Education [pp.102-104]Ranking the States by the Black-White SAT Scoring Gap [pp.105-110]The Racial History of the U.S. Military Academies [pp.111-116]The District of Columbia's Open University Looks Ahead to Better Times [pp.117-119]Trent Lott: No Friend of the Educational Progress of African Americans [pp.120-121]African Americans Select Their Favorite Books of the Twentieth Century [pp.122-123]In 1974, a Quarter-Century Ago, Smith College Graduated More Black Women Than at Any Time in Its History [p.124]The History of Blacks at Yale University [pp.125-126]Opinions on Current ReadingCoalition Politics as the Source of Progress of African Americans [pp.127-128]The Passengers on the Underground Railroad [pp.129-131]The Foot Soldiers of the Montgomery Bus Boycott [p.132]The Censors of Race [p.133]The Hindu System of Caste Supremacy [p.135]

Race Relations on Campus [pp.136-137]Scholarly Research on Blacks in Higher Education [p.138]Black Digest of Literature [pp.139-141]Appointments, Tenure Decisions, and Promotions of African Americans in Higher Education [pp.142-143]Notable Minority-Related Grants to Institutions of Higher Education [pp.144-145]Scholarly Papers [pp.146-158]Notable Honors and Awards [p.160]Back Matter