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...result is a toxic mix of immigrant backlash, Islamophobia and militant separatism, says Uddipana Goswami, a social scientist at Jawaharlal Nehru University who has written extensively about the northeast. Ethnic Assamese political parties and separatist groups like the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) have all taken up the anti-immigrant cause, as have other non-Muslim minorities. A series of bomb attacks in the state capital Guwahati on Oct. 30, 2008, killed more than 60 people, and local police say that militants agitating for an ethnic Bodo homeland, who have clashed violently with local Muslims, are to blame...
Egnal argues that most Americans, including many historians, have come to accept that the Republicans’ anti-slavery policies were the cause of both their popularity with the electorate and the decision of the slave-holding states to secede. He acknowledges that this was one part of their attraction but argues that economics offer a more satisfactory explanation for the party’s rise...
...speak together and work together and share ideas, work together young and old.” Not only did this ideal make Ladysmith a natural match for Paul Simon and Sesame Street, it also enabled them to spread their message of understanding into the political realm as cultural ambassadors. Anti-apartheid activists in South Africa and abroad took Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s music as an unofficial anthem. In 1994, the group performed at the inauguration of Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa. Shabalala and company have hardly slowed down since, producing a steady stream...
...social justice and civil rights initiatives on campus. “This is Harvard University. How can there not be an NAACP?” Nortey asked. The organization’s current on-campus absence may be part of a larger statewide trend. Once known for bitter anti-discrimination battles and struggles against segregated Boston public schools, the NAACP Boston chapter has become less vocal in recent years, according to the Boston Globe. Since the 1960s, the membership of the Boston chapter has declined from nearly 5,000 to 400. At Harvard, the NAACP has followed a similar trajectory...
...both acknowledged influences on José's writing. In Dusk, the first in the saga and set at the wane of the 19th century, a subversive hacienda overseer lends copies of Rizal's two classics to Eustaquio Samson, a young farmer, in the hope that he will join the anti-Spanish revolution...