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...Foods of the Greek Islands: Cooking and Culture at the Crossroads Of the Mediterranean by Aglaia Kremezi (Houghton Mifflin...
...shadow of the gold-domed State House, Jose Morales and Gustavo Restrepo were eating late lunches at a Greek diner, The Fill-A-Buster, yesterday afternoon. They are regulars here and yesterday. Morales was eating a plate of beef kebobs. Restrepo was eating chicken kebobs...
Although Georgia's population is 28% black, as are 6% of the students at the university's main campus in Athens, few blacks are members of the 42 historically white fraternities and sororities there. The Greek organizations and the university declined to provide a racial breakdown but say that some blacks do belong to white sororities or fraternities. Examining this pattern after years of looking the other way "has been painful, as holding a mirror up often is," says Richard Mullendore, the school's vice president of student affairs...
Philo Hutcheson, an education professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta, says that among white Greek organizations "there are examples all across the country of things like blackface minstrel shows and slave auctions...These are overt statements of racism, and they happen in the North as much as in the South." Efforts to integrate white fraternities and sororities are made more difficult, Hutcheson says, because blacks often self-segregate in their own Greek organizations...
...races. Membership in sororities and fraternities increased 14%, but no blacks wound up applying to white organizations. The University of North Carolina offers diversity training to its student groups. So does the University of Virginia. But only a handful of blacks have tried to join the white Greek organizations at those universities...