Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...material by and about Afro-American people is presented in courses offered by members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Most of these courses treat the Afro-American experience in the context of more general aspects of American life: social, political and intellectual history, urban problems, race and ethnic group relations, to name just a few. Only one course, Social Sciences 5, and a few group tutorials for credit in Social Relations and Government, focus exclusively on the history and culture of Afro-Americans...
...protest the use of the term Wasp as the equivalent of "Americans of the old stock." There is a comparatively small but very proud and loyal group of people in the U.S. whose ancestors were both Catholics and Americans long before the influx of ethnic groups. They include Marylanders, Frenchmen in St. Louis and New Orleans, Castilian Spaniards in the Southwest and certain families in Philadelphia and other coast cities. Mr. Sargent Shriver is the most prominent man of this group at the present time. To refer to him as a "Waspirant" is as insulting as it would have been...
...black-Jewish confrontation may be only a subconflict in the larger hostilities between black and white. But the significance of the problem is profound. U.S. democracy is based in part on its willingness to accommodate a wide and sometimes mettlesome variety of religious and ethnic patterns. If these two minorities, black and Jew ? each with its distinctive and essential contributions to American society ? cannot get along, then the viability of the American experiment in pluralism is thrown into doubt. Thus, the conflict takes on symbolic values far more threatening than its actual substance...
More often than not, they settled in pre dominantly Jewish areas ? partly be cause ghetto rents were cheap, partly because Jews were much less resistant to racial infiltration than other ethnic immigrant groups. In Chicago, for ex ample, Negroes have all but taken over neighborhoods that were formerly Jewish ? but have yet to make a dent in predominantly Czech, Polish and Ukranian communities...
...associate director of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies. Black Educator Rhody McCoy, 46, is administrator of New York City's Ocean Hill-Brownsville experimental school district. Last week they met at the offices of TIME to discuss their concern about the deteriorating relationship between the ethnic communities to which they belong. Excerpts from their talk...