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Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz said yesterday he plans to appear before the Governor's Council today to raise questions about what he termed "religious and ethnic" bias on the part of a state judicial nominee...
...letter claims that Mahoney--who was nominated by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis--showed an ethnic bias against Silverglate, who represented land developer Harold Brown in an investigation of alleged improprieties over a project at 75 State...
...inner cities, the situation can quickly turn ugly, polarizing along racial lines, as when black customers organized an angry boycott of Korean greengrocers in New York City this year. The city's commission on human rights reported a 7% increase in the incidence of so-called bias crimes this year. That trend is reflected in the rise in racial assaults recorded by Klanwatch, which monitors such crimes across the U.S. for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery. "The national recession has created general unrest," says director Danny Welch, "especially among white males vying for jobs they didn...
...progressiveness, we suggest that the previous bias in drama was unfortunate, that the dearth of sensitivity to minority and female representation has robbed these groups of precious cultural capital. So when directors choose to cross-cast, they are making a conscious effort to impart new capital to those groups that were marginalized in the past...
Blind casting is a relative ideal; it is a corrective measure. To pretend that the bias that infused drama did not infuse society is at best idiotic and at worst malicious. We cross-cast now to redress certain cultural greivances, but we should never forget how grave those greivances are. If a director casts an Asian-American as a Prince Hamlet, that still does not soothe the stinging reality that the West never did, indeed, never could, envision an Asian protagonist. Because so many roles are scripted for the social majority as acknowledged by our culture, roles scripted for Asian...