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...audience. After such resistance, they would reluctantly agree to be made into the son or daughter their parents really wanted, abandoning their black lipstick, chains, vinyl or belly-button ring, leopard miniskirt and sequined thong for more sensible garb. When little Susie reappeared with pearls and natural hair color her mom cried while she continued to scowl. These shows never had happy endings, as the host would always catch up to the participants a few weeks later and find that they were back to their old ways. They were at once horrible, real, entertaining and all-around terrific...
...plan passed the Faculty, moving all freshmen to the Yard and pushing the Quad toward a much more visible form of segregation. The Quad’s unpopularity made it ideal for self-imposed isolation. “[The Quad] became students of color,” Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67 says. “Students could put four unordered choices, and the sense was that if they wanted to live together somewhere, they could all put the Quad and end up there.” Sure enough, by 1996, the percentage...
...Students added color, legitimacy and authenticity to the conversation,” Sykes said...
...acknowledging those truths we come to understand why they’re painful. The white people in Bolivia are rich. They are not all white like we think of white. Their skin is not palely freckled like an Irishman or ruddy red like a Norwegian. They are people the color of beach sand, descended from the Spanish who came 500 years ago and engorged themselves and their empire on Potosí’s silver. They hold the money and the power and control of the military, and their money and power has been handed down and will...
...seems wrong to think of these people and these issues, these complicating levels of class struggle and economics, in just racial terms. And it is wrong, in the sense that these people are not wholly defined and owned by the color of their skin. But it’s right to acknowledge the realities of many Latin American societies, because the racism and nationalism and class elitism are so interwoven parts of the same oppressive tapestry...