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11-02-2020 | COMMENTARY

Do Black Students Need African American Teachers: Commentary on Prescod-Weinstein

Author: Walter E. Block

Published in: Journal of African American Studies | Issue 1/2020

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The view of most commentators is that all students need role models who “look like them,” and that this is especially true of members of minority groups. The present essay takes issue with that contention.

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Sowell, 1975, 1976, 1981A, 1981B, 1982, 1983, 1994; Williams, 1982A, 1982B, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2013, 2014A, 2014B, 2014C, 2015A, 2015B, 2015C, 2015D, 2016, 2017; also see Block and Williams, 1981

Mathematics, physics, music, chemistry

I am grateful to a Loyola University colleague of mine for alerting me to this essay

Whatever that means

Politically correct ones, that is

There are now five: black, female, poor, “genderqueer,” and now, lacking academician parents.

Yes, 50 or 100 years ago this was not true at all; but this author is writing in this year of our Lord 2018!

With the exception, of course, of being Jewish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Kaku

http://www.scmp.com/tech/science-research/article/1903684/was-einstein-wrong-chinese-physicist-wu-yueliang-claims

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/two-top-chinese-american-scientists-have-dropped-their-us-citizenship

https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2015/hu-studying-physics

Some undoubtedly justified, but other presumably not, given the imperfect human condition

CBS, 2013; King, 2015; Richardson and St. Vil. 2015; Zonfrillo et al., 2014

Block, Walter E. and Walter E. Williams. 1981. "Male-female earnings differentials: A critical reappraisal," The Journal of Labor Research, Vol. II, No. 2, Fall, pp. 385–388; http://www.walterblock.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/mfearningdifferentials.pdf

CBS. 2013. “Deadly ‘knockout game’: What it is and why teens are playing it.” Novbember 21. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deadly-knockout-game-what-it-is/

King, M. (2015). The ‘knockout game’: Moral panic and the politics of white victimhood. Race and Class, 56(4), 85–94. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396814567411.CrossRef

Richardson, Joseph and Christopher St. Vil. 2015. “Putting in Work: Black Male Youth Joblessness, Violence, Crime, and the Code of the Street.” Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men; Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring. pp. 71–98; https://muse.jhu.edu/article/581896/summary

Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda. 2018. “Defying the Odds.” Inside Higher Ed. March 9; https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2018/03/09/mentors-and-role-models-can-attract-minority-students-fields-where-they-may-not

Sowell, T. (1975). Race and economics. New York: Longman.

Sowell, T. (1976). Patterns of black excellence. Washington D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Sowell, T. (1981a). Pink and Brown people. San Francisco: The Hoover Institution Press.

Sowell, T. (1981b). Ethnic America. New York: Basic Books.

Sowell, T. (1982). In W. E. Block & M. Walker (Eds.), “Weber and Bakke, and the Presuppositions of ‘Affirmative Action,” Discrimination, Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity (pp. 37–63). Vancouver: The Fraser Institute.

Sowell, T. (1983). The economics and politics of race: An international perspective. New York: Morrow.

Sowell, T. (1994). Race and culture: A world view. New York: Basic Books.

Williams, W. E. (1982a). The state against blacks. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Williams, W. E. (1982b). In W. E. Block & M. Walker (Eds.), “On Discrimination, Prejudice, Racial Income Differentials, and Affirmative Action,” Discrimination, Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity. Vancouver: The Fraser Institute.

Williams, Walter E. 2003. “Discrimination: The Law vs. Morality,” Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy Fall pp. 111–136; http://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=expresso. p. 114.

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Title: Do Black Students Need African American Teachers: Commentary on Prescod-Weinstein
Author: Walter E. Block
Publication date: 11-02-2020
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of African American Studies / Issue 1/2020
Print ISSN: 1559-1646
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4741
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-020-09462-x

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