Word: eschew
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...write, "black children had a greater sense of racial pride when their parents acknowledged racial identity, moved to integrated neighborhoods, and provided African American role models. Black children whose white parents minimized the importance of racial identity were reluctant to identify themselves racially." But is it necessarily catastrophic to eschew a strong racial identity? Not everybody thinks so. "All adopted children face challenges with being adopted," says R. Richard Banks, a Stanford Law professor and author of The Color of Desire: Fulfilling Adoptive Parents' Racial Preferences through Discriminatory State Action. "To some people, saying we want children to develop...
...comedic potential than Apatow’s films are with exploiting the humor in the positively unimpressive masculinity of his male characters.While there’s nothing wrong with guys making movies for guys about guys, when I see women making movies that are about women but eschew whatever the female equivalent of a dick-joke is, I get a grin in the corner of my mouth. I get excited that there might be more than one acceptable way to make a comedy that stars same-sex actors as its leads and excited that the boys might...
...that unwillingness to acknowledge the ideological diversity of the black community homogenizes what is an extremely heterogeneous community and that neither “open nor veiled references to racial loyalty or disloyalty point the way toward reliable answers to such questions.”But Kennedy does not eschew the responsibility that comes along with group affiliation. While Kennedy holds the view that “all Negroes should be voluntary Negroes, blacks by choice, African Americans with a recognized right to resign from the race,” he maintains that he sees no reason why an African...
...indeed, is proving to be an effective means to advance the religious cause. In Swat, a picturesque valley that has been besieged by Fazlullah's militant forces, the government has proposed the implementation of Shari'a. Bhutto's husband and de facto successor, Asif Ali Zardari, says he will eschew the military option in favor of dialogue with militants in the restive tribal areas along the border. That approach could work, but it requires the Pakistani people to take a firm position on who takes control of their religion. The extremists have already shown that they are willing...
...efforts are unofficially termed “Beyond the Bench,” a reference to the lab bench that many of the University’s graduates now eschew...