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Some of the people Banks discusses--bell hooks, or my colleagues Henry Louis Gates Jr. and West, for example--are intellectuals in the stricter sense of the word.
So-called public intellectuals like West, bell hooks, and, yes, Henry Louis Gates Jr. himself, seem to me both dishonest and selfish--they're in it for the money and the power as much as out of any sense of obligation or responsibility to the black community.
There is an old saying, "A woman hooks up with a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
In Figure 2A, the TAR vector recombines with a genomic DNA fragment via the targeting hooks, which results in separation of the TATA box from the transcription initiation site in the URA3 gene by the DNA insert.
As in the first approach, the TAR vector contained a yeast centromere ( CEN6 ), a yeast ARS element ( ARSH4 ), a positive-selectable marker ( HIS3 ), and a negative-selectable marker ( URA3 ). In this approach, however, the targeting hooks are placed between the promoter and the open reading frame of the URA3 gene.