“No one then considered the privilege implied in the fact that white literature was the core curriculum and black literature was the elective. And with no people of color in the student body, it was as if we were studying an ancient civilization with no connection to our lives.”
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Stamford '76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s
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