Word: exploitationism
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Sometimes dumping on the poor is a consequence of self-exploitation. In their search for new disposal sites, waste managers have discovered fertile ground on American Indian reservations, which are considered sovereign entities not subject to local or state environmental restrictions and whose residents are perhaps the poorest of the...
Similarly, Lee's use of metaphor, so effective in School Daze and Do the Right Thing, is very uneven. On one level, Lee rises to his previous standard in his attempts to discuss the exploitation of Black jazz musician by white businessmen. Both the characters of Indigo and Gilliam's...
God only knows how many people have been victimized or how many could have been saved from such volatile exploitation if only something had been done sooner.
In each case, after undergoing the rigorous process of qualifying for NEA money -- and building it into their budgets -- the arts organizations turned the funds down. They could not tolerate the stipulation that Congress added to the NEA's 1990 appropriations: no funded work may involve obscenity, "including, but not...
The Helms amendment, adopted by Congress in October and named for Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), requires that all NEA-funded projects meet federal obscenity guidelines. The amendment prohibits funding for works that depict "sadomasochism, homoeroticism, the sexual exploitation of children or individuals engaged in sex acts, and which...