Word: colorism
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Over the course of four years, Harvard students responded to the Cold War as tensions flared inside and outside Harvard Yard. Senator Joseph McCarthy targets Harvard University in his quest to weed out alleged communists in America. The United States develops the hydrogen bomb, and the first color television is sold. For the Class of 1957, these events were the background to their time at Harvard...
...Federal Communications Commission approves color television, but the new technology does not reach Harvard until 1956, when Lowell House residents are treated to the College’s first color television in their common room...
...Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, has earned respect not only throughout Harvard’s campus, but also beyond our gates due to his continuous engagement with students of color over many decades, which has ended up leaving the Harvard community a more welcoming place, and indeed the world a better place. Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 (“Dishonest Discourse,” column, May 21) is not wrong for bringing up her true feelings about issues of racism on campus, but she is out of line when...
...course of being forged and bent at high temperature, and of being left out afterward in the rain, the plates are marked with stress patterns, splatter stains and long shallow rivulets. Then, as intended, they rust. Over time they take on an appearance that's part weathered cliffside, part color field painting...
...which drew on her voodoo roots in the old African slave port of Cotonou, Benin, where she grew up: music is "the ultimate power," she explains over lunch in Paris, her adopted home in the 1980s and 1990s before she moved to New York City. "Listening to music, the color of a person disappears, language disappears. Even enemies listen to the same music...