Word: explicitness
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This is race talk, the explicit insertion into everyday life of racial signs and symbols that have no meaning other than pressing African Americans to the lowest level of the racial hierarchy. Popular culture, shaped by film, theater, advertising, the press, television and literature, is heavily engaged in race talk. It participates freely in this most enduring and efficient rite of passage into American culture: negative appraisals of the native-born black population. Only when the lesson of racial estrangement is learned is assimilation complete. Whatever the lived experience of immigrants with African Americans -- pleasant, beneficial or bruising -- the rhetorical...
...into the camera and confided, "The whole House of Representatives is running in 1994, and a third of the Senate. We've got a little song we sing: 'We remember in November when we step into that little booth.' " Moderator Larry King, realizing that Perot seemed to be making explicit what had previously been veiled, asked whether he was saying he would try to defeat Representatives who voted for NAFTA. The people would do so, replied Perot. "There's no way to stop...
...whole -- could pass up. The works haven't been shown in two decades, but they constitute the first, and arguably still the best, treatment of black-American historical experience by a black artist. (Romare Bearden's collages are slices of life, but they do not form an explicit historical narrative in the way that Lawrence's paintings...
Neurologist David Kaplan, who is currently involved in research with Schacter, explained that information becomes part of implicit memory when certain recognition systems are activated. Implicit memory differs from explicit memory in that one need not understand the information or remember learning...
Caviness, who also directs the division of child neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), suggests that implicit memory may play a role in disorders currently attributed solely to explicit memory systems...