Edited sentence: " "Can there really be any doubt", Teachout asks, "that a man capable of publishing such prose is demonstrably unworthy of being entrusted with the education of English majors, whatever their race, creed, color, or sexual orientation." Teachout laments that if Baker's work is  "truly representative of the best black studies has to offer, then it necessarily follows that black studies is a joke, a pitiful and preposterous burlesque of scholarship foisted on the academy in the holy name of diversity.In a review of Baker's 1993 Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy, Terry Teachout provides a withering assessment of Baker's competence as a scholar.Teachout finds the book to be "a veritable omnium gatherum of latter-day academic clichés," and objects particularly to: "Loud, flatulent praise of the Sixties"; "even louder and more flatulent denunciation of the Eighties; "pseudo-heterodoxy"; "preening"; "incessant use of tin-eared jargon"; "embarrassing use of teenage slang"; "simple ignorance"; and "plain old bad writing