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But I would think that most black-studies scholars are only partly heartened by this; for this rather triumphalist book (and Gates is important in black studies, in part, for the promotion of a triumphalist view of black history and black culture--globally speaking--which is why he is hated by Afrocentrists who take a somewhat different view of the long-term meaning of "the coming of the white man") is nothing less than the middlebrow arrival of black studies in American culture.
I am only in favor of subjecting them to criticism, which is what I have done in the pages of Commentary , and which I was heartened to see Shulevitz has herself now done in
Conservatives are heartened, though a few winced at his boast that Republican ideas are carrying the day--in Mongolia.
Those of us who have labored in the field of black studies (politically incorrectly such as the present author or very much politically correctly like a good many very good scholars) are heartened by this commercial venture.
The review was not a good one, but I was heartened to hear that the author--an early Web pundit and entrepreneur--was arguing that humans have liked speed since the beginning of time.