Word: assimilationist
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Without institutionalized support services or minority groups to foster cultural awareness or celebration, the Chicano student will soon melt into the Harvard pot. It would be silly to indict proponents of the integrationist--really, it is assimilationist--philosophy as intentionally malevolent or racist; they probably geuinely believe that such ideology and subsequent University action is in the minority students' best interest...
...Florida International University in Miami, says: "I speak Spanish at home, my social relations are mostly in Spanish, and I am raising my daughter as a Cuban American. It is a question of freedom of choice." In Gonzalez-Pando's city, where Hispanics outnumber whites, the anti-assimilationist theory has become accepted practice: Miami's youth can take twelve years of bilingual public schooling with no pretense made that the program is transitional toward anything. The potential for separatism is greater in Los Angeles. Philip Hawley, president of the Carter Hawley Hale retail store chain, cautions: "This...
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...