Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What Papa would have thought of all this is anyone's guess. But purists should remember that Hemingway was never shy about reaping the perks and rewards of his increasingly famous name. In fact, the 1953 East African safari that became the genesis of True at First Light began as a celebrity assignment for Look magazine. And the Kenyan government, worried that the Mau Mau uprisings would discourage tourism, welcomed Hemingway's visit and the publicity it would generate by naming him an honorary game warden...
...book also contains intriguing evidence that Hemingway, in his mid-50s, was entertaining second thoughts about the swaggering macho ethos that his writings and well-publicized exploits had so widely disseminated. Although he is on an African safari, he is weary with hunting: "The time of shooting beasts for trophies was long past with me." He recalls the treatment meted out to the Africans who had accompanied him on a previous safari. "Once they had been the boys... Twenty years ago I had called them boys too and neither they nor I had any thought that I had no right...
...African-American brothers reluctantly move to a white suburb with their grandfather. "What is that smell?" asks Riley, a pint-size gangsta wannabe, as they stroll through the leafy hood. "Clean air," deadpans Huey, his eight-year-old brother. "My guess is we'll get used to it eventually...
That is no surprise to Aaron McGruder, the 25-year-old African American who created The Boondocks for his student newspaper at the University of Maryland. The strip, he says, "requires people to go outside their comfort zone." Born in Chicago, McGruder grew up in Columbia, Md., where he dealt with "the intimidation of being one of two or three black faces in a sea of faces that don't look like you." He still works out of his bedroom in his parents' split-level ranch house, his collection of Star Wars toys strewn about. Besides "an addiction...
...nation if similar laws are adopted in such states as Texas and Florida, where Connerly, the Pied Piper of color blindness, plans to bring his crusade. But despite the moans you will hear from supporters of affirmative action, it may not be such a bad thing. It could force African Americans to rediscover a piece of mother wit: if you want to succeed in America, you have to be twice as prepared as your white counterpart. Anything less...