Word: assimilationist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This article had a profound effect on my class (1977). Many of us felt that it was an attack particularly directed at the Afro-American Studies Department (which is not "assimilationist") as well as against us as freshpeople entering the College. The attack on AAS continues to this day, with the denial of tenure to demonstrated African scholars with years of teaching experience, and the appointment of people with little training in Afro-American Studies to positions in the Department...
...sermon Sunday, Gold said Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War triggered a new Jewish consciousness and a new era in Jewish history which he called "the post-assimilationist...
...Peeble's first film, The Story of a Three-day Pass, dealt with "integrationist-assimilationist attitudes now eschewed by the adherents of the Black Arts Movement." Van Peebles, who lived in Paris and made that first film there. has clearly gone through the alienating expatriation process experienced by many black artists; but where a gifted artist like John Williams can reveal his frustrations openly (in The Man Who Cried I Am ), Van Peebles merely jumps into what he feels to be the black mainstream without knowing what he's getting into. "You're as hot as little sister's twat...
...vanguard of black opinion, among intellectuals and political activists alike, is oriented more toward the achievement of group identity and group autonomy than toward the use of public schools as assimilationist agencies...