"The militant advocates of black studies fail to recognize that the purpose of the humanities and social sciences is, at the very least, to teach critical methods of thought. But this cannot be achieved in a black studies program whose ideological assumptions are ethnocentric, culturally xenophobic and authoritarian."
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Martin Kilson, "Anatomy of the Black Studies Movement," The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Autumn, 1969), p. 723
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