Word: assimilationism
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With just over $100,000 cash on hand, and having decided not to run for re-election in Congress, Tancredo is down to just a few aides, one of whom, not seeing the irony, signs off her campaign e-mails for "Tank" Tancredo with "Keep on Tankin'." The Colorado Congressman...
I decided as a hopeful pre-frosh that college would be all about assimilation, even if it killed me. After years of being held back by a family a tad too eccentric for my hometown’s comfort, I was ready to joyfully jump into the mainstream. With my...
But having been in Australia for 40,000 years or more, in contrast to the whites' 200 or less, the Aborigines were not giving up. So the policy changed to assimilation. First, the Aborigines were deprived of their nomadic tribal life and concentrated in "mission stations," communities run mainly by...
After World War II, the comic book genre became an unlikely vehicle for civic protest and consolidation of memory. "The hour of immigrant assimilation gave way to the fight for minorities and civil rights," explains Pasamonik. Harvey Kurtzman used the medium to tackle racial segregation, the Cold War and McCarthyism...
The answer lies in the existence of a certain hegemonic model of what the American essence embodies. To a large extent, this is natural and expected—after all, Caucasian Americans have been in the country since its inception, and have had many multiple generations in which to define...