Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, retail stores are allowed to appeal to a certain market base. If Abercrombie wanted to appeal to a largely white audience, that's fine. There are plenty of fashion labels that target a specific ethnicity--Fubu for African-Americans and Pinoy-Wear for Filipino-Americans to name a few. But these designers make it clear that they are appealing to a certain group within the nation. Abercrombie tricks you into thinking that their ads represent all of America. Their troupe of Aryan models even travel to England to prove it. For as we all know, "the only...
...European communism was in the throes of collapse. It was December 1989, and George Bush had arrived for a summit with Mikhail Gorbachev on the stormy waters off Malta in the Mediterranean. He introduced the Soviet President to his advisers, stopping near a reed-thin, 35-year-old African-American woman. "This is Condoleezza Rice," Bush told Gorbachev. "She tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union." Gorbachev looked her over--startled, in that setting, by the adviser's race, gender and youth. "I hope you know a lot," he said...
...high-tech industry that's making people rich and fueling America's great economic surge is often criticized for the low numbers of minorities in its booming work force. All told, African Americans constitute only 7.2% of the nation's computer scientists; Hispanics, only 3.6%. Part of the reason, as Microsoft chairman Bill Gates can tell you, is that there are too few minorities with the education to fill those jobs. Gates and his wife Melinda addressed that problem last week, when they announced that their foundation will make the largest academic donation ever: $1 billion, which will be distributed...
...undergone so radical a demographic alteration and survived"). He lashes out at Jews as too influential (using the kind of rhetoric that led fellow Catholic conservative William Buckley to conclude, in a 1991 National Review article, that Buchanan was an anti-Semite). But he also argues that Greek-Americans, African-Americans and other "hyphenates" are too outspoken on foreign policy--drowning out the white Anglo-Christian voices he sees as truly representative of his America. And who says there are no new ideas in presidential politics? Buchanan lambastes Armenian-Americans for securing too much U.S. aid for the tiny Republic...
Originally Harvard had one black student organization. Then subgroups formed--an African association and a Carribean club among them...