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...many years, the accepted colloquial term for Spanish speakers was simply "Spanish." This misleading and incorrect expression has been used by both non-Spanish and native speakers alike. Calling someone "Spanish" implies that that person is of Spanish descent (i.e., from Spain...
Hamilton writes of Kennedy's being accepted, despite his Irish-Catholic descent, into the Spee Club, a Harvard final club, during his sophomore year...
Today, one in four students at the College is Jewish. And several top University administrators are of Jewish descent--including Provost Jerry R. Green, who last week gave a talk on how lessons from the Judaic tradition of moral law could benefit the Harvard administration...
...Malcolm X himself are equally revealing. Cornel West's essay on "Malcolm X and Black Rage" deals with the transformative, freeing anger so central to Malcolm's thought and his electrifying oratory style. For West, Malcolm articulated outrage at "the sheer absurdity that confronts human beings of African descent in this country--the incessant assaults on Black intelligence, beauty, character and possibility." With his trademark eloquence, West elucidates how that rage served to perform a "Black psychic conversion," a defiant re-evaluation of the self that is free of American racist values. West argues convincingly that it is this anger...
McKissic addressed the current debate aboutwhether to call people of African descent Black,African-American or Negro...