You really sound angry.  I'm sorry.

Do you happen to know Jim Anderson.  He's at the library on the New
Brunswick campus.  Went to high school with him.

I won't go into which A-A or Anglo world cause I don't really want to fight
about what was intended to be a sort of thought-provoking discussion not a
raging battle.

But then, I've been in the South for twenty-seven years and haven't been up
in your territory for awhile.  Maybe I am just mis-reading that naturally
abrasive (as I was called for years by my southern colleagues) tone that
folks in your regional culture have in their voice all the time.


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Robert Handy
Brazoria County Historical Museum
100 East Cedar
Angleton, Texas  77515
(409) 864-1208
museum_bob
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From:   Adrienne Deangelis[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Wednesday, August 26, 1998 6:53 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Equity and All That

The point I've been trying to make is that no one is automatically
qualified
for a professional museum or academic position solely, or even as the last
qualifier, on the basis of his or her supposed cultural background.  Yes,
there is discrimination against those who don't seem to have this
background,
but that's wrong.  Those students in the black studies class you took 30
years ago were wrong to push you out, and they would probably have a hard
time getting away with that today.
Another thread on this list has been the great difficulty of starting up a
museum career.  IMHO, the great shortage of even halfway decent jobs in the
humanities and the arts has led to an increase in favoritism and other
types
of bizarre hiring decisions, and I think that a lot of people feel this
way.
There may not be a lot that one can do--except keep applying, which has
been
suggested--but this defeatist semi-racism does nothing to correct the
situation.
BTW, which African-American experience in the "Anglo" world are you talking
about?  That of the corporate lawyer who lives in Portola Valley, that of
the
schoolteacher in Montebello, that of the single parent in Watts?  And which
"Anglo" world are you talking about?

A. DeAngelis
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