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I have a feeling Austen, and the Bronte sisters do not count.
1 posted on 03/27/2017 11:38:24 AM PDT by C19fan
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Ayn Rand has been marginalized by college English departments. Does she count?


2 posted on 03/27/2017 11:40:31 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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Was it their Pride or our Prejudice that marginalized them?


3 posted on 03/27/2017 11:40:52 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I've wasted enough time eating mushrooms and conversing with hookah smoking caterpillars.)
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Harvard does no better in their ‘law’ school.


4 posted on 03/27/2017 11:42:06 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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At Harvard, this would be a Bible study.


5 posted on 03/27/2017 11:47:18 AM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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Wait... does that mean they get to study dead, white men again?

Marginalized authors:
C.S. Lewis
G.K. Chesterton
Daniel Defoe
James Fennimore Cooper
Flannery O’Connor
Edmund Specer
Ben Johnson


6 posted on 03/27/2017 11:47:29 AM PDT by dangus
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My college roommate, who was black, applied to Harvard Medical School. She was accepted, and they sent her an invitation to a “Third World Weekend,” so that she could decide whether “a student like yourself” could adapt to the Harvard environment.

“Joy, they noticed you’re from Houston,” I said. She ended up going to UC-San Francisco, the only out-of-state student they accepted that year.


7 posted on 03/27/2017 11:48:08 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("The feelings business is very profitable, and the thinkings business is not.")
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What’s next? A mandatory course in Ebonics?


9 posted on 03/27/2017 11:48:43 AM PDT by Pravious
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Mandate?

A lot of times, authors are "marginalized" for very good reasons: They peddle crap, they write crap, or they can't really write, and only got published because of some mandate, not because they are profound, noteworthy, or are filling a profitable niche.

I'm guessing HRC and spawn scrivenings will be required reading.

Decades ago, college observers noted the English departments were where communists were given refuge.

16 posted on 03/27/2017 12:10:29 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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How about Alex Haley, whose ROOTS is outrageously fraudulent and plaigrized from a (white) author?

Or Rigoberta Menchu, whose totally false “autobiography” that won her a Nobel Peace Prize?


23 posted on 03/27/2017 12:58:33 PM PDT by golux
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This sounds like more of a hobby than something that would help you get a good paying job. I have my pick of authors to read from on the internet, library, etc. How much do they charge students per year?


24 posted on 03/27/2017 1:43:07 PM PDT by Trillian
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my marginalized, i take it they are referring to authors such as rush limbaugh and ann coulter...


25 posted on 03/27/2017 1:49:38 PM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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...a diversity course featuring authors that have been “marginalized for historical reasons.” ...yeah, the historical reasons were probably that they were lousy writers - who today actually knows the race or the sex of an author writing under a pseudonym unless they do some research into the matter.....
26 posted on 03/27/2017 2:29:15 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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Aside from having nearly 400 years of good press and family connections, what is the advantage of a Harvard university degree? You could get a better education from the Khan Academy.


27 posted on 03/27/2017 4:16:13 PM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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