Word: exclusionism
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On the subject of increased minority admissions, "We did not launch this effort from a sense of collective guilt or a desire to atone for our national history of exclusion and discrimination. We had more positive, forward-looking goals."
These organizations have always been strapped for funds, and minorities have a tiny pool of wealthy alumni to draw on for support, given the exclusion of Third World students for the first 330 years of Harvard's existence. Furthermore, the report does not deal directly with a key element of...
Nevelson's attempt at a fusion of painting and sculpture ended by confusing her reputation during the 1960s. The art Establishment was dominated by a formalist view that took it as gospel that art should be "self-defining"-so that painting must eliminate every attribute not unique to painting...
Hard times, the wet-dry fuss, national politics-these things obsessed Americans all year, but not to the exclusion of all else. In Dixon, Davenport and all over, people avidly followed sports. Baseball was the game, Babe Ruth the hero-and one who alone would have made the year memorable...
When Asian Americans protest racist depictions we are often accused of being oversensitive. However, we see our protest as part of a continuing struggle for survival and dignity in this country which we worked so hard to build. The characterizations of Asians as cunning, inscrutable, and subhuman are integrally tied...