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Porter's "Love for Sale" (1940), The Doors' "Unknown Soldier" (1968),
Neil Young (criticised by Vice President Spiro Agnew 1970), Bob Dylan
(banned 1971). Los Angeles Times F? (July 17, 1992). Sholem Asch's play
"God of Vengeance" was banned in New York in 1923. New York Times
s.2 p.6 (October 18, 1992). A Japanese court banned Nagisa Oshima's
"In the Realm of the Senses," although it could not define obscenity.
Oshima (1992); New York Review of Books 40 (October 8, 1992).
14 Guardian 5 (November 13, 1991).
15 Matsuda (1989: 2357, 2367). How would she deal with a Hebrew
translation of Mein Kampft Shocken Books refused the project: "we
suffered too much as a result of this man and this book, and should not
perpetuate his ideas." So did Yad Vashem (the memorial to Holocaust
victims) because "it still is emotionally difficult." The translator, an
Austrian Jew who fled the Nazis and whose parents were killed in the
camps, persisted despite a dozen rejections. "It's a sad episode but a
historical fact, and the younger generations must know what really
happened and why. You have to know who your enemy is and what he
is." Akadamon ultimately printed 400 copies of an annotated version of
one-fifth of the original book, in plain black and white covers without
illustrations. New York Times B2 (August 5, 1992).
16 Eysenck (1971); Jensen (1969); Herrnstein (1971); U.S. News & World
Report (1965). For a critique of racist biology, see Gould (1981). Shockley
was a physicist who donated his sperm to a Nobel-prize winner sperm
bank and won a $1 damage award for defamation when his racist theories
were challenged. National Law Journal 6 (September 24, 1884), 8
(October 1, 1984).
At City University of New York, philosophy professor Michael Levin
has written articles for academic journals contending that "there is now
quite solid evidence that . . . the average black is significantly less
intelligent than the average white." Levin v. Harleston et al., SDNY 90
Civ 6123 (KC) (September 4, 1991); Rohde (1991). On the other side,
Black Studies chair Dr. Leonard Jeffries Jr. has called Europeans "ice
people"—materialistic and intent on domination—in contrast with the
humanistic "sun people" of African descent. He claims that extra melanin
gives blacks intellectual and physical advantages. Chronicle of
Higher Education A4-5 (September 25, 1991), A19 (November 6,1991),
A19 (February 5, 1992); New York Times A13 (April 20, 1990), A18
(March 27, 1992). Within the "Afrocentric" movement Michael Bradley's
The Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man's
Racism, Sexism, and Aggression argues that whites are so vicious
because they are descended from brutish Neanderthals, of whom Jews
are the "purest" example. It was recently reissued with endorsements
from two members of the City University Africana Studies Department.
New York Times A13 (July 20, 1992) (op ed). Bradley purported to rely on
Carleton Coon, whose The Origin of Races (1962) has been exposed as
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