Edward W. Said's 1978 book "Orientalism" engendered a small industry of scholars documenting how we perceive the outsider or "other".
As a result, "the Montgomery bus boycott, so often thought of as merely a public accommodations case, was really rooted in the struggle to protect and defend black women's bodily integrity," says Wayne State University associate professor and author Danielle McGuire, who is among a growing list of scholars documenting the racist patterns surrounding violence against black women.
(Michael Kater, the author and scholar, documented that Orff was one-eighth Jewish).
Revealingly, both are Yoruba, from Nigeria, a country where a great deal of work has been done by scholars to document the names and careers of important artists.
In September 1990, the prince quietly agreed to finance an ambitious project by a group of Saudi scholars to document the country's rich cultural heritage and traditions before they disappeared.
One of the first women to become a prominent folklorist, Mrs. Rubin was also among the first American scholars to document the culture of Eastern European Jews, anticipating by decades the Yiddish revival of the 1970's.
This workshop will bring together a group of such scholars to document and discuss these contributions, as well as consider their broader implications for the fields of comparative politics and urban studies.
The two new studies based their findings on data supplied by the states last year to the federal Department of Education on their applications for stimulus money, as well as on other financial reports that have allowed the scholars to document states' actual expenditures on public schools.
In a new report, "The Rise of Reiderstvo: Implications for Russia and the West," George Mason scholars Louise Shelley and Judy Deane document how corrupt judges, prosecutors, police and government officials collude to rob many Russian businesses from legitimate owners.
Hate speech: Scholars have documented it.
Scholars have documented centuries of this cycle in action.
