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...Abigail Johnson of Fidelity Investments expanded her father's fortune. Emily Rauh Phipps inherited her wealth
When Anatavia M. Brown '98 and Abigail E. Baker '98 went shopping last Saturday afternoon, they quickly discovered that vibrators and edible underwear aren't as easy to come by in Harvard Square as they used...
This connection is lost on Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom, who choose to magnify gains blacks have made and minimize the sizable gaps that remain. Black progress has been neglected, they tell us, while poverty, unemployment, welfare dependency and crime have been exaggerated in order to feed "the mix of black anger and white shame and guilt that sustains the race-based social policies implemented since the late 1960s...
...task is daunting, but even as Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom's new book upends liberal dogma on racial progress, several other white authors, all liberals to some degree, are making their own fresh attempts to grapple with America's racial dilemma--specifically, with the equivocal attitudes of whites toward African Americans. Unfortunately, none of them offers much in the way of innovative prescriptions...
Incessant repetition of myths does not, of course, make them true. Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom demonstrate in their newly published book that the economic rise of blacks was in fact more rapid in the '40s and '50s than in later decades...