academic world

Scholars from marginalised castes face different kinds of roadblocks as they navigate the academic world, one of which is fluency in English language.

Although no one outside the academic world had ever heard the term "critical race theory," it had been developing for almost two decades before “The Bell Curve” was published.

That recognition was not enough to overcome entrenched sexism within the academic world.

And the new dogma in the academic world that divides everyone into two antagonistic groups — colonialist oppressors versus the virtuous oppressed — also may not ring true for a big share of non-white voters who see the world in more nuanced ways.

Mr. Branzi was active in the academic world as well, helping to found Domus Academy — a postgraduate school for design — in Milan in 1982, and later becoming a professor and chair of the prestigious school of interior design at Politecnico di Milano.