Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Published to coincide with the final U.N. conference on women in Nairobi, this cross-cultural document involved the efforts of literally hundreds of women from all over the world and provides multiple perspectives on the social and economic practices of gender-based oppression...
...blacks who live within South Africa but whose citizenship previously had been assigned to one of four "independent" tribal homelands. He also proposed extending to blacks in urban townships the right to buy, instead of merely rent, their own homes. He affirmed that the government will issue an identity document to South Africans of all races, replacing the "passes" that blacks are currently required to carry at all times...
...rest in humanitarian supplies. The decision to carry the fight to Capitol Hill once more stemmed from a Jan. 10 meeting of the National Security Council, which approved a directive calling for increased aid and involvement not only in Nicaragua but also in Afghanistan and, more controversially, Angola. The document declares that the U.S. intends to play an even more active role than in the past to apply pressure on the Sandinistas, send covert military aid to the rebels opposing Angola's Marxist government, and help the Afghans harass the Soviet occupying forces...
...almost three months after the controversy broke, we are still waiting. The Spence report, a six-page document that meticulously and agonizingly recounts and then parcels out blame for Safran's acceptance and handling of two CIA contracts, fails to tackle almost all the ethical questions that, if left unanswered, may leave Harvard with no credibility in Middle East studies...
Hence, "In the American West" is not primarily a social document at all, though at first glance it appears to be. Avedon is not absorbed by the reporter's task of showing how these people look and dress, or with acknowledging the full range of their emotional lives. Instead, against these blank white backgrounds he has projected the shapes of what appears to be his < own dejection, finding in each glum expression the corollary of a private somber mood. Yet the exhibition is also more than a magic-lantern display of the photographer's psychic woes. Looking through the lens...