Word: exclusionism
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But homophobia is. Webster's 1980 "newly revised" dictionary does not have an entry for the word, so we point to Audre Lourde's definition: "A terror surrounding feelings of love for members of the same sex and thereby a hatred of those feelings in others." As you might expect...
Homophobia is only one manifestation of the need to scapegoat. Xenophobia and racism are also used to dehumanize, and thus to scapegoat the enemy. Misogyny, with its unmitigated assertion of superiority and justification of violence, is widespread--witness the incidence of rape as an act of war, the harassment of...
Since the 1790s, the U.S. has imposed severe restrictions on immigrants, culminating in the 1920s in the so-called Exclusion Laws targeted largely against Asians. These restrictions were not lifted completely until the mid-1960s. Asians began settling America in the early 1800s and some have lived in the U.S...
Ah, last year. After his freshman year injury,Weisbrod came back to Cambridge in 1988 "ready toexplode." And explode he did, tallying 22 times toplace third on the team goal-scoring list despitehis exclusion from the power play unit.
But Jewett maintains that the present situation heightens first-year student anxiety over where they will live and fosters feelings of exclusion by some houses. And that must be changed, the dean insists.