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The Sky is Falling

Black Studies and the Politics of Public Discourse

Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis

Miami University

This article is in response to Robin Wilson's April 22, 2005, piece in the Chronicle of Higher Educationand the larger issues that it evokes. The author frames her argument in the context of the way language is used to construct Black studies as "the Other" in the academy. That is, language as it is used in Wilson's essay and elsewhere marks or codes Black studies in certain, mostly negative, and questionable ways. Using the Chicken Little analogy, the author explores the invisible agenda hidden in Wilson's words.

Key Words: language • anti-Black studies • invisible agenda

Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36, No. 5, 720-731 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0021934705285940
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