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...Harvard Review” and later in the 2005 edition of “The Best American Short Stories,” began the discussion with a disclaimer. “I have to say I feel like I’m totally unqualified to write about the diaspora,” Reddi said, referring to the title of the event, “Depicting the Diaspora.” “I just wrote out of the need to tell the story about the group of people that I knew as a child. It was intensely personal...
...French diaspora isn't waiting. Emigrés are voting with their feet, and that has turned them into an election issue: almost 1 million of them have registered to vote in the two rounds, on April 22 and May 6, more than double the number in the last presidential election in 2002. Royal's Socialist Party briefly mooted whether to institute a tax on French who move abroad, but soon dropped the idea. For his part, Sarkozy staged a boisterous election rally in London in January, a first for a French presidential candidate, and urged the crowd of about...
...week, the idea of Europe was set to paper, on a continent unsettled but past the worst of the postwar period. The air was clear of sulfur if not spleen. Ireland was a small rock in the North Atlantic made relevant only by its cultural totems and ever increasing diaspora. In Berlin a chasm was opening up between East and West--the partition of lives, fortunes and fates. In the global struggle between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., between freedom and totalitarianism, Europe was the fault line and the front line. Old Europe was being rebuilt to fight the next...
That message might resonate most with the Irish themselves. For generations, Ireland had to export its underemployed to foreign shores, particularly the U.S. They were not always welcome for the very same reasons that the Poles were feared. Now the Celtic Tiger has reversed history: Ireland's modern diaspora has been returning home to a robust economy infused by immigrant Poles. It's a welcome, and welcoming, place for both...
...course, other points of tension remain, such as the concept of black identity, especially now that Harvard’s black students come from every corner of the African Diaspora and level of the socioeconomic ladder. Celebrating Black History Month is no longer as simple as paying homage to a few Black American leaders or addressing the problems of urban America, because those issues are no longer of universal significance within the black community, as many feel unable to relate to a “shared” experience of historical struggle. At Harvard, an increasing number of students...