Word: glazer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While he still maintains a devotion to the ideal of the melting pot, Glazer says that he now acknowledges certain "realities" in education, particularly among African-Americans...
...Glazer recently criticized the Califonia Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), a referendum which garnered 54 percent of the Californian vote last November and has since been upheld by the California Supreme Court. He said he feels that the initiative, which would make racial preferences illegal, "would undermine the pattern of American adaptation to social change by introducing a complete ban on the use of race in college admissions...
Fellow conservatives, such as Thomas Sowell '58, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, have in turn criticized Glazer for his opposition to the CCRI, most notably in a recent article in The Weekly Standard...
Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, however, comes to Glazer's defense in the area of affirmative action for African-Americans. Mansfield said that "while racial injustice is in good part gone, it nevertheless lingers...
...Glazer qualified his views, writing that when he says "'we are all multiculturalists now", he means that "we all now accept a greater degree of attention to minorities and women and their role in American history...classes in school...