Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year's MPP class is 8.3 percent African-American, 10.3 percent Latino and 12.2 percent Asian, according to figures provided by the admissions office...
...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...
...conservative, dark-suited son of Afrikanerdom, President Frederik Willem de Klerk could not have rocked the political world more when, in 1990, he unbanned the African National Congress, released Nelson Mandela and set South Africa on the road to the end of apartheid and a black-majority democracy. And when De Klerk, who with Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize for engineering the transition to a new South Africa, surprised his nation last week by announcing that he was retiring as head of the opposition National Party, South Africa had more to reflect on than his role in the historic...
...dissident. De Klerk believes Meyer is making a mistake in trying to rally an opposition political alliance. "You don't disband the second biggest party in the country in order to work with smaller parties," he says. But he also concedes that with the divisions in South African politics no longer just about race, political realignments are inevitable...
...Soon after Mobutu was ousted, Graff recalls walking through the leader's house during his final days and finding it filled with potions and herbs used in traditional African rituals. "He was trying to save his rule and save his life by relying on the supernatural," says Graff, "but, in the end, he lost both...