Word: color
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...question the existence of racism. Yet many Americans of color do extraordinarily well. I do not, in addition, question affirmative action in principle--if it aims at giving all those of socio-economically deprived, underprivileged, or educationally less rigorous backgrounds the equal opportunity to succeed. That goes for poor African-Americans from Watts or Brownsville; but it should also apply to destitute whites from bankrupt mining communties in rural West Virginia; Vietnamese boat people; inner-city Koreans; Chinese political refugees and any other group whose social and economic backgrounds deprive them of the same opportunities as the sons and daughters...
...learned about an aspect of Indian culture earlier this fall. I visited the Sackler Museum exhibit on art from the Kotah. I went because I wanted to see art, to feast my eyes on color and beauty, not because I wanted to learn about Indian culture. But at the exhibit I managed to do both. The text accompanying each painting put the pictures in the context of Indian folklore, colonial history and regional geography. By touting cultural events as representative of a whole culture and people, ethnic groups run the risk that, for example, people who disliked one Latin Dance...
...have Faculty with enough women and minorities in it for students to have inspiration," she says. "Students need to be able to see themselves in those [leadership] roles. That's not the only way to be inspired, but life is tough enough [for women of color] that it's good to have the opportunity...
...books are at least well-printed, in full, glossy color. The Midnight Special is respectable as a well put together repository of nostalgia, but Real World: The Ultimate Insider's Guide and Road Rules: Passport Abroad are useful only for the MTV fan wanna-bes who desperately need to be as cool as their friends. With the help of these new books, you too can eloquently quote from The Real World with witticisms like this from Eric of the New York cast: "You gotta do what you gotta do, y'know...
...ironic contrast to the distant, detached husk he becomes in his own household. His daughter, by contrast, exists in perpetually stunted emotional tumult. In her first line, she seeks approval from her aunt Lavinia (Eve Johnson), holding the skirt of her new dress, nervously asking, "Do you like the color...