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To: tejek who wrote (345825)	8/6/2007 10:48:32 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586972

Cultural ignorance "Who was Marcel Duchamp, and why did his painting 'Nude Descending a Staircase' provoke so much outrage at the Armory Show in 1913? What does George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' have to do with both the Jewish and African-American experience in the United States? Why was Ernest Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises' so influential for modern fiction and journalism? How did Alfred Hitchcock, Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder, among many other emigre film directors, bring European cinematic styles and ideas to Hollywood? Why was Marlon Brando's performance as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's 'A Streetcar Named Desire' so revolutionary on stage and ultimately in the movies? "If you are an undergraduate or a graduate student taking a course in 20th-century American history, you are unlikely to find the answers to those questions. They won't even be posed. Nor will the names or the works of the artists, composers, novelists, filmmakers and actors appear in the lectures or in the books assigned on the reading list. The vast majority of American historians no longer regard American culture — whether high culture or mainstream popular culture — as an essential area of study. ... "We're teaching the subjects we want to teach and talking about the people — mostly the exploited and the victimized — we sympathize with. Never mind if we're also passing on a substantial amount of cultural ignorance from one generation to the next." — University of Texas history professor Richard Pells, writing on "History Descending a Staircase," in the Aug. 3 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education that's you ted