Word: ethnicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Largely because blacks knew that he had an excellent record on civil rights, they rallied to his side after he made his worst gaffe of the campaign, saying some kind words about "ethnic purity" in neighborhoods. Black support helped Carter to surmount that crisis quickly. He took many blacks as counselors, notably Urban League Executive Director Vernon Jordan, and Congressman Andrew Young, who represents a mostly white Atlanta district. When asked recently to whom he owed anything. Carter replied: "Andy Young." The list stopped there. Carter has promised to appoint blacks to Cabinet or sub-Cabinet jobs; if they...
...would suggest another reason for the small-town backgrounds of our Presidents: male WASPS are somehow perceived as representing everyone. Ethnic minorities have been concentrated largely in urban areas. It is no coincidence that the only (Irish) Catholic President was from an urban area...
Glazer is well qualified to speak on the subject of minorities. In Beyond the Melting Pot (1963), he and his co-au thor Daniel ("Pat") Moynihan pointed out that ethnic ties were strengthening in America, not weakening as many people thought (or hoped) at the time...
Today membership in an ethnic group is growing more important than American identity. Unless present fed eral policies are modified, Glazer fore casts a continuing rise in ethnic consciousness and combativeness. In short, Glazer concludes that liberal policy makers, as they seek to knit an inte grated society together, are unraveling it as they...
...person's race or sex to adversely affect his evaluation by an employer or admissions committee while trying to justify a practice in which these very attributes are used to give the individual an advantage over other candidates. Affirmative action is racism, plain and simple. It intensifies ethnic and sexual differences, creates tensions, and presents an image of the individuals it favors as pathetic and inadequate candidates in need of government help to get jobs and obtain positions in schools. None of these results is desirable and all are detrimental to minority and majority alike. Let's end affirmative racism...