Word: exploitationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Promoted as, of all things, a comedy, and as an alternative to the sex-and-violence black exploitation films, Claudine is one of the year's most dismaying products. It is directed with staggering vulgarity, and it is embarrassingly misacted by its stars. Both are careful to convey the...
Died. Walter Clay Lowdermilk, 85, land and water conservationist; in Berkeley, Calif. As a forestry professor in Nanking, China, in the 1920s, Lowdermilk concluded that the vast wastelands of northern China were a product of careless exploitation of agricultural resources. In a vigorous lifelong crusade to combat what he termed...
Karefa-Smart's political awakening came shortly after that, during a tour of East Africa. He was stunned by the exploitation of Africans in the mining industry throughout the copper belt, and, looking around, saw far more rigid repression than relatively liberal Sierra Leone had known.
Viewing the results, McLaughlin declared that the movement of one group of women up the economic ladder leads to the economic exploitation of another group. Says she of the professional women: "Probably their own freedom is so new that they do not yet think of themselves as employers-a role...
In a brief address to the council, Louis B. Studer, a member of the Cambridge Committee to Support Farm Workers, urged the council to help "end the oppression and exploitation" of the farm worker.