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...much of Obama’s ability to obtain whites’ support was due to his unusual racial heritage??the grandparents from Kansas, the father in the United States on a student visa, the visible and unembarrassed biraciality? Is it now possible that white voters will be equally enthusiastic about an African American candidate descended from slaves...

Author: By Jennifer Hochschild | Title: Looking Backward and Forward from Election Day, 2008 | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...Khaznadar argues, a cuisine has no business being considered an intangible cultural treasure. In 2003, the agency that had for decades charged itself responsible for identifying and preserving World Heritage sites around the world added another category of world treasure to its jurisdiction: the “Intangible Cultural Heritage?? (ICH). In order to be added to the list of intangible cultural treasures, a process that happens every two years, a new ICH must meet five criteria...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Is Justice Blind and an Aguesiac? | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...interrelatedness of cultures—is always a good thing," Cuno writes. In the eyes of advocates like Cuno and Ebbinghaus, university museums in particular now have a massive task laid out for them: trying to forge agreements between cultures that balance the demands of both scholarship and cultural heritage??a kind of beneficial peace that’s not just on loan...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman and Elsa S. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Illegal Exhibits | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...statements designed to cater to the average Louisiana voter. Although his broad platform promise to “end corruption in Louisiana” is universally appealing, you can bet that the more extreme viewpoints he dishes up to white Republicans get omitted from the soothing “heritage?? speeches he gives at Indian-American fundraising dinners. Jindal has been very successful indeed at working his innate advantage and tapping the latent ethnic pride (some would call it racism) felt by other people of his color...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: The Brown Blessing | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...their rhetoric and politics. Simon deserves credit for the way he deconstructs the statistics cited by the pro-war Heritage Institute, demonstrating the principle that statistics cited out of context tend to represent a selective view of data that is subject to conscious or unconscious bias. Simon correctly faults Heritage??s numbers for comparing apples and oranges—the average income of recruits’ families versus the average income of all families, instead of just families with recruiting-age children. A more thorough deconstruction is needed however, not just of the Heritage study but of whether...

Author: By Gustavo A. Espada, | Title: Flaws In Military Recruiting Study Belie Truth | 2/3/2006 | See Source »

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