Word: ethno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...landscapes, hardly compare with his work in the 1920s. And though Chagall's Yellow Crucifixion, 1943, swarms with images of contemporary loss and persecution--the burning shtetl, the fleeing refugees, the sinking torpedoed ship--its formal softness indicates the turn his work would take after the war toward pious ethno-kitsch...
Although most of my ethno-political struggles have been on the purely verbal level, I have had some physical encounters...
Because of my ethno-political status, I have had to deal with many other experience here at Harvard. One day, I went into the Coop looking for some boots while wearing my Harvard Republican Club T-shirt. A sales person asked a couple of Hispanic girls if they required assistance, to which one answered, "No but you can help that sell-out over there...
...hard truth is that being ethno-politically incorrect is difficult no matter where you go. I have had to learn many important lessons...
Menchu was selected for the $1.2 million prize, the committee said, "in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation." Amid the "large-scale repression of Indian peoples" in Guatemala, she plays a "prominent part as an advocate of native rights." Francis Sejersted, the chairman, said the committee was "aware that this is a somewhat controversial prize." The fact that it came during the quincentennial "was not a coincidence," he said, "but it was not the only factor...