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...Johnson disagrees with Thomas’s idea that stereotypes disproportionately afflict the black community...
...really draws the black community because when they start thinking there’s chicken, they’re more likely to come out,” says Shelley J. Thomas ’11, an African-American Christian. “They will always come for chicken and cornbread. You can count on that...
...could see that in the way black people are portrayed now: you got the movies, you got the dancing, you got things like that,” she says. “I’m trying to live right, but if I go out to this dance, I’m expected to dance like they dance in the movies. I’m expected to wear what they’re wearing. So I think that’s a little more difficult...
...stereotype is a stereotype, and I don’t believe that the Harvard black community especially falls into category of individuals who play into a stereotype simply because the stereotype exists,” Johnson says...
...value of Tufts’ endowment fell by 25 percent this past fiscal year, from roughly $1.5 billion to $1.1 billion, after accounting for gifts and payout. Bacow suggested in the article that Tufts would avoid putting money in hedge funds, which he compared to “black boxes,” requiring investors to relinquish control of assets and put their trust in external managers...