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...Recently, Ignatieff has faced harsh criticism from voters in the largely-Ukrainian region of Etobicoke-Lakeshore where he is running, who accuse him of using disparaging ethnic slurs in his published work...
...leads to a particular conclusion.” Coakley, who is also a Democratic candidate for Mass. attorney general, raised the issue of the impact of race-based trial tactics on victims. “Anyone who thinks the accuser may be prejudiced against them because of racial or ethnic or some other reason, has that opportunity to play the race card,” Coakley said. “What happens when the defendant plays the race card against the victim?” The event is the first hosted by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race...
...witnessed a lot of my white peers reacting to that same frustration in many different ways. Some questioned the legitimacy of ethnic and cultural student groups; others formed identities as distant from racial issues as possible...
This means more than posting some ethnically-diverse photos on its website. The participation of women has risen dramatically over the past few years, but minority involvement remain largely elusive. One problem is that Harvard undergraduates are scattered among so many disparate campus groups that the IOP finds itself competing for priority with an endless list of ethnic and political societies...
Finally, to describe French society as “a society formerly of one cultural, linguistic, and ethnic mode” is to take the utopian aspiration of the Jacobin revolutionaries for an eternal truth. In 1790, Father Henri Gregoire pointed out that most French citizens did not speak French, and he made a long list of the various regional dialects and languages spoken in France. During the 19th and 20th centuries, many immigrants settled in France. Among the 10 most common family names in France today, one can find “Garcia...