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What you're looking at, those three abstracts, is almost the totality of the doctor's professional work, excluding a few book reviews and letters-to-the-editor that she has authored. And excluding her dissertation, which I just don't have the stomach to go and dig up at the moment.

I thought that the good doctor might actually wish to hear from some members of the community she spends so much time and effort writing about. Between Marxism, feminism, abortion, and race-relations, the good doctor has some rich material for virtually every freeper here, and I'd hate to see anyone left out...

And FWIW, I think you may have nailed exactly why the good doctor might not want to spend much time contemplating the BET phenomenon ;)

BET is incredibly depressing to watch. There are jokes on their "humor" shows that are SO racist as well as stupid, it defies the question why that is on the TV...I'd LIKE to see some scholarship, honest scholarship, on why this *is*.

But, as everyone with a brain knows, that wouldn't get anybody hired, only fired.

What you're looking at, those three abstracts, is almost the totality of the doctor's professional work, excluding a few book reviews and letters-to-the-editor that she has authored. And excluding her dissertation, which I just don't have the stomach to go and dig up at the moment.

Par for the course in the field of 'Communications Studies', I'm afraid. One of our Comm. Studies faculty wrote a 250 page thesis on 'A Different World', a spinoff sitcom from the Cosby show. Hard to believe this passes for scholarship. This same faculty member writes largely illiterate columns on 'racial issues' for the local lefty fish-wrap. Apparently, sentences with a subject and verb are oppressive, or something.

A few years back I came up with 'Harbison's laws of academe'. I don't remeber them all, but a couple were

Any field that goes by the name (blank)-studies is the domain of charlatans.
The easiest way to tell a science major from a humanities major is to see if the student can write in complete sentences. The science major usually can, the humanities major usually can't.
The lower the objective content a discipline has, the more likely its faculty are leftist.

Things have gotten so much worse recently, I'm considering replacing 'major' by 'professor' in rule 2.