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Footnote 3: "As Light notes, there had been a few black students at Curtis, including a woman in the piano department. Sokoloff, who would have been her teache
by B1FF_PSUVM 11y ago
Footnote 3:
"As Light notes, there had been a few black students at Curtis, including a woman in the piano department. Sokoloff, who would have been her teacher at Curtis, said she was “not a genius, but she had great talent,” and insisted she was rejected because there were better applicants. Simone, however, never doubted that she was rejected because of her race."
- kelukelugames 11y agoIf this happened today then I would side with Curtis. But I have a different opinion when considering the acceptable attitudes of the last century. In the early 1900s, Harvard had more than a few Jewish students and erected anti-Semitic admissions criteria at the same time. So a lot of students were rejected because they were Jewish. Simone applied to Curtis in 1950, years before the Little Rock school integrated and a whole decade before the Civil Rights era.
- foolrush 11y agoGreen account. How brave of you. You are aware that sociological and gender studies factor into notions of “genius” and talent? Good.