Word: conscious
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...White Women’s Collective. Such an organization would make a lot of people uncomfortable, but there’s not much danger of that happening. If, as some leaders of other ethnic student organizations say, white students self-segregate as much as anyone else, they are not conscious of doing so. The Crimson survey found that while Harvard’s campus has some white communities that identify strongly with an ethnicity (the Jewish community, for example), 26.3 percent of the 274 white students surveyed said their race/ethnicity was not at all a part of their identity (versus...
...only Harvard group he’s active in that has six black men. “I definitely don’t consider myself having picked these people because they were black,” Lynch says. “It wasn’t a self-conscious ‘I want to live with a group of black guys.’” At the same time, Lynch admits, race formed a basis of shared experience between them and was a factor, though not the final determinant, in their decision to live together...
...City.” As an economics major (translation: concentrator) currently entertaining notions of one day working the I-bank circuit in New York, Krinsky realizes that her ability to discuss sex in print can only hurt her chances of advancing in the reserved and image-conscious world of high finance...
...Marcus’ website, www.benmarcus.com, is also full of elaborate gimmicks, such as cutesy minimalist illustrations and a glossary of terms from the book, designed to appeal to those who loved Eggers’ self-conscious style. Certain stops on Marcus’ reading tour will feature demonstrations of Silentist rituals. Marcus has even penned an essay admitting, “I have written a bad book,” for McSweeney’s, the newly prominent platform (born out of Eggers’ success) for this sort of youthful and experimental genre...
While everyone recognizes the existence of a code between blacks and whites, few characters seem conscious of a similar code between men and women. The male dominates the female in buck, whether it be Brett silencing Jane’s voice of resistance, Lincoln having sex with Jane as a mere bodily stand-in for the white women, or Robert Aniston denying his wife Amanda’s claim that her sex with Lincoln was consensual...