Saturday, July 08, 2006
Immigration and Race Relations
Pity the poor student who must sit through the hate and venom of Jeffrey Melnick's American Studies classes at Babson College. And pity the parent who is paying the tuition. I would do a literature search on him, but he sounds like he could be violent, and I don't want my ISP frosting his cookies. But I did peek at Babson College, which is a small business school in Massachusetts. Wow. This guy must have issues, because he nearly vomits when writing about American business and the hateful globalization in his Chapter 11 of "Companion to American Immigration" (Blackwell, 2006).
He begins with the obligatory "mythic images," of American immigration, all inaccurate according to Melnick, but they only get a brief paragraph. He quickly moves on to genocide, mass enslavement, annexation, violence, and pernicious cultural works that destroy everyone they touch. He is a master at "interrogating the historical literature." That's where you take every historical monograph written before 1960 (but ignore original sources), tie them to a chair in the faculty lounge and torture them until they spill their guts about how awful the United States is, was, and forever will be. It's like the torture and interrogation (called deconstructionism) the feminists perpetrate on novels of the 19th century, only more violent. You make the literature say things it would never even whisper if it weren't bound and beaten by faculty seeking tenure at any cost.
Melnick says it took five centuries to re-write and tear apart our history. Funny, I thought it was only about 40 years. My clock must be off. Whatever, he is extremely proud to be a part of the demolition team. He doesn't even like the terms "multiculturalism" and "diversity" and has no use for hyphens. I'm trying to imagine how this guy got tenure at a business college that lauds its ties to American and foreign business, and especially promotes entrepreneurship.
He even "interrogates" his own title, IMMIGRATION AND RACE RELATIONS. Even the word AND isn't safe when Melnick applies the electrodes to the private parts. I must say, I was impressed. I'd never seen that particular interrogation technique. He goes to great lengths to describe a Japanese American (no hyphen please) with sexual conflicts and fears about black men and his "internalized instruction manual for proper racial behavior. . .[and] colonization of his internal life."
It would be, in fact is, easy to make fun of Melnick, but this drivel and dribble is forming puddles on our college campuses. It's beyond puddles--it is a swamp, a cesspool.
It's possible that he and other academics are on the "anti-immigration" team of the far right. I mean, what Asian or South American would ever want to sell their soul for a nice car, some real estate, and a full tummy if they had to subject themselves to such a hateful culture?
He begins with the obligatory "mythic images," of American immigration, all inaccurate according to Melnick, but they only get a brief paragraph. He quickly moves on to genocide, mass enslavement, annexation, violence, and pernicious cultural works that destroy everyone they touch. He is a master at "interrogating the historical literature." That's where you take every historical monograph written before 1960 (but ignore original sources), tie them to a chair in the faculty lounge and torture them until they spill their guts about how awful the United States is, was, and forever will be. It's like the torture and interrogation (called deconstructionism) the feminists perpetrate on novels of the 19th century, only more violent. You make the literature say things it would never even whisper if it weren't bound and beaten by faculty seeking tenure at any cost.
Melnick says it took five centuries to re-write and tear apart our history. Funny, I thought it was only about 40 years. My clock must be off. Whatever, he is extremely proud to be a part of the demolition team. He doesn't even like the terms "multiculturalism" and "diversity" and has no use for hyphens. I'm trying to imagine how this guy got tenure at a business college that lauds its ties to American and foreign business, and especially promotes entrepreneurship.
He even "interrogates" his own title, IMMIGRATION AND RACE RELATIONS. Even the word AND isn't safe when Melnick applies the electrodes to the private parts. I must say, I was impressed. I'd never seen that particular interrogation technique. He goes to great lengths to describe a Japanese American (no hyphen please) with sexual conflicts and fears about black men and his "internalized instruction manual for proper racial behavior. . .[and] colonization of his internal life."
It would be, in fact is, easy to make fun of Melnick, but this drivel and dribble is forming puddles on our college campuses. It's beyond puddles--it is a swamp, a cesspool.
It's possible that he and other academics are on the "anti-immigration" team of the far right. I mean, what Asian or South American would ever want to sell their soul for a nice car, some real estate, and a full tummy if they had to subject themselves to such a hateful culture?
# posted by Norma : 7/08/2006 07:43:00 AM
