Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student body at large, courses in Afro-American studies, ethnic studies and women's studies may provide useful exposure to the literature, culture and history of particular groups. But when members of the groups represented by these courses take only these courses, their goal for their own education becomes no more ambitious than self-affirmation and confirmation of one's origins...
...Amnesty International report showed that many of the victims of police brutality in the United States are unarmed, lack a criminal record and belong to an ethnic minority. The fact that Giuliani turns a blind eye to these sorts of statistics and deaf ear to the pleadings of minorities to watch dog is disturbing, to say the least...
...balance of charm and force in the pursuit of a policy based on pure pragmatism and an underlying belief that the U.S. can help restore order to the badly fractured Balkans. In the past month, Albright has moved to the center of U.S. negotiations over the fate of the ethnic Albanians living inside the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. Last Saturday, after jetting back to France, Albright hiked up and down stairs for nine hours in the drafty 14th century castle in which talks were under way, carrying proposals between hard-line Serb negotiators and Kosovo guerrilla chieftains...
Kwanzaa's premises raise important questions answered persuasively by the practice of Black History Month. Is an assumed African cultural heritage the most preferable source of identity and ethnic pride for black Americans? Do blacks as such require separate holidays? Black History Month suggests otherwise...
...course, had the principal been more creative, he might simply have created a Hispanic History Month. But then the question arises: what to do with the thirteenth disgruntled ethnic group? Such are the problems in our rapidly cooling melting...