Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Furthermore, we have tried to go beyond the faculties, deans, department heads and administrative units. We have suggested to other Harvard affiliated units such as news media, student organizations, etc. that they, too, should affirmatively seek out individuals from various racial and ethnic groups and women within the University and give them the opportunity to perform at various levels within these organizations...
...comments and analysis on the dysfunctional aspects of the black separatist lifestyle have ever denied that this behavior was due in part to white racist patterns, and in my Bulletin article (April) I actually state that "such behavior is a conscious countering of white racist exclusivism with black ethnic exclusivism." What I have said, and would reiterate, is that the black separatist students use the charge of white racism as a catch-all explanation for their problems, ignoring a more self-critical evaluation of their situation. My writings on this issue attempt, for better or for worse, to correct this...
...eleven Jews are rounded up in Baghdad and hung, when Syrian Jews live at the mercy and whim of the state, or in concentration camps in Iraq? In the face of such tremendous external pressure, no nation has been as even-handed or as liberal in its treatment of ethnic minorities as Israel. Let us pressure those who deserve to be pressured -- the governments in Amman, Cairo, Baghdad and so on. Laurence Cohen
...finance themselves despite local unwillingness and federal indecisiveness; 2) force free schooling on those who want paid experience and/or complete freedom; 3) teach the three Rs (by any method) to nearly everybody; 4) believe that vocational schools are for the "less intellectual ones"; 5) defeat segregation and build ethnic pride; 6) combine babysitting, body building and racial tolerance; 7) give a single diploma for the varied results...
...article, Herrnstein says he took an "explicitly agnostic" stand on racial (i.e., black-white) differences in tested intelligence," and notes that ethnic and racial group dissimilarities are "hard to pin down as regards intelligence." In addition, he says that it was "neither my goal nor my subject" to determine genetic vs. non-genetic factors for various groups...