Word: assimilationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other than these flurries, he has become increasingly relaxed about his success. He took it in stride when critics said he had sold out, edging in toward the musical center line they so deplore -as if there were something deplorable about pop music's actually being popular. They also...
THE INTERESTING ASPECT of Clara's metamorphosis, and indeed of the whole fantasy of escape into aristocratic elegance which comprises the central theme of the film, is that this is precisely the sort of ambivalent and delusory self-consciousness we might expect a woman in her situation to have: the...
Aside from some publicity about the circumstances surrounding his admission. Cantelme's assimilation into the Harvard community has been a smooth one. There have been little problems--longer reading lists, greater difficulty making contacts with professors than at Glendale, adjusting to the reserved temperament of people in New England and...
The celebrated geniuses of the Jews of modernity, in Cuddihy's view, have been intellectual Davids slaying Gentile Goliaths. Why? Because historically, successful assimilation required that the Jews "be nice," that they accept the impersonal, formal civility of Gentile society at the expense of the more idiosyncratic, traditionally religious...
In an era when the leadership of assimilation pacifists such as Martin Luther King was being imposed upon the black movement by the white media, the intensely nationalistic Muslim line was a relatively progressive alternative. Malcolm began to see, however, that neither the Muslims' utopian separatism nor the integrationists' reformism...