Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chained to a pickup truck and dragged to death--a crime that last week led a jury in Jasper, Texas, to impose the death penalty on one of his killers. Nor was the worst situation the continuing fury over the fatal police shooting in New York City of unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo or the equally infuriating police shooting of 19-year-old Tyisha Miller last December in Riverside, Calif...
...data to statistical tests to assure its reliability, the study's authors concluded that the disparity in what are literally life-and-death decisions about medical care was most likely due to unconscious biases about gender and race. As U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, who happens to be an African American, told the Washington Post, "Blacks are 40% more likely [than whites] to die from heart disease, and this could be one factor...
...most of the century, the notion that borders were sacred prevailed. African and Asian decolonization in the 1960s recognized states along borders set by colonial rulers. It wasn't quite as thoughtless as critics of these "arbitrary" lines that split ethnic groups and ancient kingdoms now charge. At least some diplomats believed that multiethnic states--like the U.S.--should be encouraged. Between 1945 and 1990, secession and separatism were not just discouraged but were also forcibly opposed. The sole success: Bangladesh...
...DEMOCRACY The victors of the cold war will judge your case, and they are disposed to anoint only noncommunist, nonauthoritarian believers in multiparty elections and the free market. That pretty much queers the prospects of religious-based Chechnya and most African separatists. The Kosovars' lack of civil institutions and political structures makes them a premature candidate...
...When we [seniors] see each other we talk about two things: What we're doing next year or our thesis," say Jobe G. Danganna '99, a social studies concentrator writing a thesis on Christianity, racism and racial reconciliation of the African-American experience from the 1960s to the 1990s. "We call it the T-word or the T-bird...