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African-American studies have had the difficult task of grappling not only with being black in America, but also how to understand and study black history and black literature in this country. Clearly, addressing whiteness studies is a less formidable task and a distinct department is neither warranted nor necessary. Just imagine all of the courses in the history and English departments that would be cross-listed. Nonetheless, in order to better understand disadvantage, we may also need to study the nature of privilege...
...critically lauded 1996 debut "Drown"--details a Dominican American boy's encounters with his father's Puerto Rican mistress and his experience at a lively family party. Here Diaz once again proves that he is one of the best young writers around not for what Proulx calls his distinct "cultural, ethnic, and class" perspective, but because underneath his deceptively simple, "street vernacular" prose is a powerful storyteller as equally capable of the comic (the narrator's chronic car-sickness makes for some oddly funny moments) as he is with exploring the tricky dynamic existence between husbands and wives, fathers...
...This one could run on the History Channel: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970). A balanced, almost documentary view of winter 1941, including the very distinct possibility that FDR and his top brass knew about it ahead of time. On the American side, Martin Balsam, Jason Robards and Joseph Cotten as Secretary of State Stimson, and S? Yamamura and Tatsuya Mihashi manning the aerial battering ram. A full complement of directors, one American and two Japanese, make this a true learner for those whose schoolbook days are mercifully over...
...side and not the democratic process. Students who want grapes in the dining halls will all vote "yes" while students who wish to maintain the boycott will have five different options to choose from. The "no" vote will be split five ways, giving the "yes" side a distinct and unfair advantage. I would suggest as an alternative that there be an initial referendum giving students just two choices--a "yes" or a "no" to ending the boycott on grapes. If the "no" side wins, then perhaps there could be a second referendum, allowing students to choose among the five different...
Those at the forefront of the debate about managed care had distinct views on what they see as a system in which patient care is subordinated to profit margins...