http://www.metafilter.com/tags/louisagassiz Posts tagged with 'louisagassiz' at MetaFilter. Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:20:24 -0800 Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:20:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/6446/ <a href="http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/078/metro/8th_grader_sees_shame_in_school_s_namesake+.shtml">Boston area school divided</a> by its namesake... Students and principal call for <a href="http://www.cps.ci.cambridge.ma.us/Agassiz/index.html">Agassiz Elementry </a>to change its name, due to the racist evolutionary theory spun by the <a href="http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/agassiz.html">19th century naturalist</a>. "Reading about Agassiz was so painful I had to step back for a while." [<a href="http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/078/metro/8th_grader_sees_shame_in_school_s_namesake+.shtml">says the student </a>heralding the renaming effort]. A sample of Louis Agassiz's mindset <a href="http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/dec94herman.htm">"I experienced pity </a>at the sight of this degraded and degenerate race, and their lot inspired compassion in me in thinking that they were really men." A new namesake has already been found<a href="http://www.cps.ci.cambridge.ma.us/Agassiz/NewFiles/mbaldwin.html">-- Maria Baldwin</a>, first black principal of the school [and first to preside over an all-white school in the Northeast in 1889]. <p> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/race_relations/july-dec97/schools_11-25.html">Should namesakes of public institutions </a>have a "clean" record? Why did it take 126 years to mobilize a renaming effort? tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.6446 Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:20:24 -0800 agassiz boston education louisagassiz mariabaldwin racism noom