Word: assimilationists
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...argument...isn't assimilationist at all...[but] music is a personal thing. Everyone feels they can make a commentary on music, because everyone has experience in it, as opposed to poetry or literature," Radano says, noting that the beauty of "black music" is that it is paradoxically the very same vehicle that enables racial transgression...
...says that as political chair, he made the then-Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students' Alliance (BGLSA) one of the most often heard, if not influential, voices on campus. And yet, during his term as political chair, he received no fewer than 10 requests by "more conservative, assimilationist gay students... almost exclusively gay men" to tone down his protests and to organize a gay Republican political group...
...race, showing herself a critical and careful thinker by rejecting both of the well-publicized extremes that have recently dominated and sidetracked discussions of the topic. She dismisses the essentialism of nationalists like Louis Farrakhan who think racial identities are mystically ingrained in our souls .hooks also rejects the assimilationist views of writers like Shelby Steele who say race matters so little that Blacks should stop complaining and reap the benefits of the great American society...
Hwang, author of the award-winning M. Butterfly, said his early plays were influenced by the growing ethnic awareness on college campuses in the 1970s. But he said he shifted from the largely assimilationist model of F.O.B. to a more "nationalist-isolationist phase" in such works as Dance on the Railroad and Family Devotions, searching instead for a specifically Asian content and form...
...whose fractured syntax includes the news that an acquaintance is a patient at "Mount Cyanide." In Santeiro's shrewdest insight, the villain is not a religious humbug but a larcenous Lothario masquerading as an embodiment of the work ethic, and the cant he peddles is based on an immigrant assimilationist version of the American Dream...