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...questions about whether they had been discriminated against in the context of common life experiences - including applying to college or for a scholarship, renting or buying a home in a neighborhood they desired, applying for a bank loan or dealing with police. Participants answered nine additional questions about everyday experiences, such as how they were treated in restaurants, and whether they had encountered name-calling, harassment or threats. The subjects were asked to indicate the reasons they felt they had been discriminated against (facing police harassment, for example, or being denied bank loans), whether it was because of age, gender...
...very lucky to have a job where I’m happy to come to work everyday...
...that—marginal. His characters, his versatility, and—oh, God—his language are as mesmerizing as ever. But Wolff’s greatest strength is the way in which he ponders the complexity of contemporary issues through the subtlest and simplest instances of the everyday. In “Our Story Begins,” he extends this deceptive banality to an impressive breadth of fresh topics.The collection features an array of gems. In “A White Bible”, a father kidnaps a high school teacher. In “The Deposition...
This week, we commemorated the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. It got me thinking about the amazing power of an individual to inspire a groundswell of activism amongst everyday people—King led a true revolution in attitudes towards racial divides in America and spurred policy changes to address them...
...broader way, the movie played the role of candid dinner party guest in the social dialogue over anti-Semitism in the 1940s. Indeed, in changing our attitudes about issues like race, religion, and sexuality—and in changing the content of our everyday political and social dialogue—popular culture consistently plays the part of emperor’s boy, one loud enough for all of us to hear...