Word: esteeming
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...recognition. Cultural pressure (although I do not think it is as great as Professor Appiah portrayed it) is a factor in one's performance. Many Black people do not feel accepted into the community by students or faculty and such ostracism has a decided effect on one' self esteem. If your self esteem is low, you will not strive to be the very best. Especially when you are made to feel as if the very best you can be is a basketball player, football player, gospel singer or simply a quota filler...
Imagine my wife's anguish and alarm when our beautiful brown-skinned three- year-old daughter made that declaration. We thought we were doing everything right to develop her self-esteem and positive racial identity. We overloaded her toy box with black dolls. We carefully monitored the racial content of TV shows and videos, ruling out Song of the South and Dumbo, two classic Disney movies marred by demeaning black stereotypes. But we saw no harm in Pinocchio, which seemed as racially benign as Sesame Street or Barney, and a good deal more engaging. Yet now our daughter was saying...
Kaufman is torn between making the test harder, to raise students' expectations, and making the test easier, to give them self-esteem. Usually, he makes it easier, he says...
...looked, mixed in with the regular crowds on trains, subways, sidewalks and elevators were new faces: young, eager, inquisitive, female. The occasion was the first annual Take Our Daughters to Work Day, a nationwide event sponsored by the Ms. Foundation. The idea was to boost the confidence and self-esteem of girls from 9 to 15 -- the age range, according to social scientists, when many girls somehow forget how competent they can be -- and to show them how wide the career opportunities for women really...
...itself is nothing new to Commencement. For Law School graduates, it's practically a tradition. Last year, Law School students booed loudly when Dean Robert C. Clark stepped to the podium. They carried placards that read, "HLS Discriminates," "Resign Dean Clark" and "Dean--let me tell you about self-esteem." They held up a giant banner that blared, "Down with--Discrimination!!! Down with--The Dean!!!" Clark seemed unfazed; he tipped his hat politely to the crowd...