Word: assimilationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Birmingham's white community has an even larger stake in Miles, according to Monro. "I profoundly believe the good black college will help us to move toward a day of sound cultural pluralism--not assimilation--by strengthening the black community's sense of itself and its needs and pride in...
Mendel, the son of a rabbi, grows up in Lomza, Poland. He breaks away and, on forged papers, emigrates to London, where he encounters the seductions of assimilation-oysters, Christian girls, spats, the troublesome dogmas of secularism. By degrees, Mendel sheds his Jewishness, finally adopting the professional name of Maurice...
To a large extent, racial separation on campus simply mirrors that of America as a whole. "We're just playing the role society has assigned to us," says Arthur Jones, an instructor at California State University at Northridge. This defensive view understandably derives from the years of white hostility...
Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School, told about 100 people yesterday that anyone who believes that God is a "He" does not know what God is all about, and that "justice" is the determining factor in the assimilation of women into the church.
Sir / Rabbi Alvin Reines' concept of "poly-doxy" sounds very modern-you might call it "doing your own thing." But he fails to look at what our greatest teacher, history, has shown us. For thousands of years, there have been many movements and forces which did not conform to...