Events are already moving in certain deadly directions, and to be neutral means to accept that.” ‘You can’t be neutral on a moving train,’ I would tell them. Instead Zinn told his students that he did not “pretend to an objectivity that was neither possible nor desirable. Zinn, a prolific writer and scholar, tore down the wall intended to separate activism - or partisanship - from the professed objectivity of scholarship. But history was not academic exercise it was a means to make sense of the world we live in and, if necessary, a guide to action. This was not a scholastic endeavor for Zinn, even though he was a professor of history. A Yellow Rubber Chicken: Battles at Boston University Įxcerpt from the foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.“Our Apologies, Good Friends, for the Fracture of Good Order”. “Sometimes to Be Silent Is to Lie”: Vietnam.Introduction: The Question Period in Kalamazoo
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