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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be very interesting to see what kind of gymnastics [Mansfield] goes through to support what he said, because it was very specific and not taken out of context," Ali said...
Usually, the White Media's labelling of African Americans as a problem people is put more subtly--an unsubstantiated derogatory assertion here, an omission of fact or context there. But the cumulative effect is just as harmful. Which is why the exceptions are all the more instructive...
...feel "very resentful" about expectations of Black faculty relating to Black realities, and also protests that "I wasn't recruited to pioneer for the race." Tate's formulation over-personalizes the Black relatedness issue--or, by extension, the woman relatedness issue--rather than keeping it framed in a developmental context...
...drama is all the greater for its context: time and again, in 1981, 1982, 1984 and 1990, the President and Congress have looked at the deficit, winced . and struck a bargain. Each time, a change in the tax structure was paired with proposed spending cuts. Each time the tax structure was changed, but the spending cuts proved inadequate or illusory. Many of Clinton's proposals, even those as obvious as getting the Tennessee Valley Authority out of the fertilizer-research business, have been tried and rejected over the past decade. A battle is sure to come. "This is probably...
Lorde's poems on Blackness and womanhood as well as the specific references to historical events places Undersong not only within the context of Lorde's full life but within the greater context of America over the last thirty years. The book's final poem, entitled "Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices" takes the form of a dialogue between the poet and two Black women beaten to death in two American cities in the late seventies. The poet's closing words are "How much of this truth can I bear/ to see/ and still live/ unblinded?/ How much...