Word: ethnicities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who actually read Salman Rushdie's notorious best seller The Satanic Verses may have absorbed Rushdie's brilliant perception of what the planet has become: old cultures in sudden high-velocity crisscross, a bewilderment of ethnic explosion and implosion simultaneously. The Ayatullah Khomeini's response to Rushdie is (whatever else it is) an exquisite vindication of Rushdie's point. Khomeini's Iranian revolution was exactly a violent repudiation of the new world that the Shah had sponsored. The struggle throughout the Middle East now is, among other things, a collision between Islam and the temptations and intrusions...
After hearing that Goldman predicted the secession of ethnic minority republics, riots in the streets and massive strikes in his homeland, Shalnev concluded, "Professor, you're a real pessimist...
...efforts which included a mentoring program at Cambridge Rindge and Latin. Our commitment does not end there. Black Greeks are also known for their involvement in campus politics and activities. Members of Black fraternities and sororities include the president of the Freshman Black Table, the organizer of the intercollegiate ethnic conference earlier this year, the director of the Afro-American cultural center, and others who have devoted extensive amounts of time to the programs of Phillips Brooks House...
HARVARD leadership furthered racial and ethnic prejudice. President A. Lawrence Lowell advocated national immigrant restriction and a quota on Jews at Harvard. Other Harvard officials urged limiting the Harvard Corporation to Protestants, to keep out Catholics and Jews. President Charles Eliot propounded the usual stereotypes of powerful Jewish capitalists and suggested that Jews move their sabbath to Sunday to comply with Blue Laws...
...sober...sane and serious." This and similar activity focussed not on Black students' bourgeois pretensions but on crises smothering the Black poor will ensure that Black students will not "turn inward and become selfish, become hedonistic, accept short term pleasures without long-term failures..." Connecting themselves with an ethnic uplift strategy focussed on the Black poor will prepare Black students "to drive America forward...