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Right’s version of politically correct drives attacks on black studies

“It makes many of us suspect that there is a right-wing ‘political correctness’ at work, which makes all African American Studies departments and programs, and all the scholars in the field, seem as if they were all cut from the same intellectual and ideological cloth without considering our actual efforts and achievements.” - James Smethurst

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