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Café Cook 19

For this issue of CR, Café Cook offers an assortment of articles we’ve spotted on the web

article written by philosopher Rebecca Tuvel of Rhodes College entitled, “In Defense of Transracialism” quickly drew fire and opprobrium. You may ask, why is learning about something like that worth my time? Good question.  

  For one, you can learn a lot about the issues involved, but equally important you can learn a lot about what flies and what doesn’t fly in academe in this age of identity politics.  Maybe one of the lessons to be learned is that there is a mine-field to be navigated, where reputations  and careers are at stake—and the mine-field is complex. There is also the challenge of trying to understand what Christ would think of these things.

  Upon reflection we may be able to tell what these disputes teaches

about the changes that keep coming to the academic process; we might be able to also forcast the next one coming down the pike.