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Menu There is no diplomatic solutionIsrael should declare three nos;
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
Regional economic patterns of slavery across time and space, reading Isaiah Berlin, and Afro-American labor history during Reconstruction, rather. I think it was Isaiah Berlin.
I’m not as smart as I once was. I scuttled all that and became a violist. 😀
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I’m nearly done with his book. I wrote a short paper on Thomas Skidmore for a class 30 years ago, about his theories that is. Greenfield exposes the seamier side of him and his allies. Found the obit for my professor and one of my college mentors. I won a prize for best history paper in a Freshman honors core class from the History Dept. at CCNY for another paper from her course which I had submitted to the departmental committee through another professor, who specialized in ancient Rome on “The Media Role in the Steel Strike of 1919.” Both assigned topics, I think.
She also taught the mixed graduate/undergraduate course on fact-checking vetted published histories, I took. She was a tough professor and a rigorous scholar. Nice person. Cared about her students. She made a point, I recall her saying, that the hyperbole that might be acceptable on political stump was not acceptable in the classroom or in scholarship.
She was a noted historian and an anti-globalist from a traditional working class left perspective, though that was not her family background, the article notes. It says, she dated the outsourcing of American industry further back to Carter. She also criticized the politicization of the FBI , which characterizes its entire history, I might add, this is the 1920’s, and advocated posthumously exonerating Marcus Garvey. I also studied Afro-American labor history and regional economic patterns of slavery during Reconstruction in this class, U. S. Society 101.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Skidmore_(reformer)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/books/judith-stein-dead-historian-author-on-marcus-garvey.html