[lbo-talk] In the are you fucking kidding me? department

[Dissenting Wren]

It looks like her strategy was to follow up her one more-than-reputable book with a career as a public intellectual.  As far as I can tell, she has no research agenda right now comparable to the one that produced "Barbershops, Bibles, and BET."  And since that book was written while she was still at Chicago, folks at Princeton may well look at her work since arrival with disappointment.  On the other hand, she may well have reason to compare herself favorably to Cornel West, whose career-making book ("Race Matters") isn't nearly as serious as hers.

And I bet Tulane offered her a very favorable teaching load and a ton of money.

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gee. i thought you'd like the imagery of her swallowing chunks of dog shit.


> On the other hand, Princeton to Tulane? Suggests
> some reversal of fortune, which even Katrina Van
> Den Humbug may not be able to countervail.

"Harris-Perry said she was motivated to leave when the Center for African American Studies denied her a promotion to a full professorship earlier this year. She held the post of tenured associate professor since arriving at Princeton from the University of Chicago in 2006."

wasn't she a little young and underpublished for full professorship anyway? 
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