October 10, 2003

Black Athletes and White Professors: a Twilight Zone of Uncertainty

By DAVID D. PERLMUTTER

In my first year as a college teacher, I discovered a future literary genius and

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lost her again. Reading over the writing exercises my students had turned in, I came across an essay that was wise, witty,