Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city's wide array of arts groups-ranging from ethnic folk-dancing troupes to painters' collectives, the center is long overdue...
...Center, located in the remodeled Bullfinch Courthouse in the heart of one of Cambridge's oldest ethnic neighborhoods, is designed to showcase the city's rich ethnic diversity, according to CMAC spokesperson Victoria Dederian...
...suggests, are motivated purely by self interest. While we recognize that racism continues to plague our country, we feel that the best way to overcome this evil is through interracial association. Such contact, rather than resulting in an abandonment of cultural identity, leads to better understanding among all ethnic groups...
...February 25 comments, as the quintet suggests, that parochial moorings are off-limits to cosmopolitan Blacks or cosmopolitans among any other ethnic group. I said that Black students with ethnocentric identities have a dysfunctional approach to cultivating parochial moorings, a phony leadership approach that will not and cannot translate the cultivation of parochial moorings into viable benefits (whether emotional, economic, power, intellectual) for Black Americans. Cosmopolitan Blacks who want to cultivate genuine connections with some Black parochial moorings are, for the most part, just more sophisticated, mature and skillful in these matters than Blacks with ethnocentric identities, for they above...
...sadly, I think) heavily funded by Harvard resources, this event is also an illconceived and illegitimate use of Harvard's funds. We are after all in a neoconservative era (meaning many new middle-class white folks display paranoid-style antipathy toward new Black social mobility) and such short-sighted ethnic-hiving off of Alumni activity by Blacks could spark a similar ethnic-hiving off of Alumni activity by other ethnic groups (Italians, Irish, Poles, Jews and alas even WASPS). The zero-sum or foreclosure power game around Harvard's resources that flows from this infantile parochial approach to Alumni status...