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Such pain is evidence that America has yet to harvest the full rewards of its founding principles. The land of immigrants may be giving way to a land of hyphenations, but the hyphen still divides even as it compounds. Those who intermarry have perhaps the strongest sense of what it will take to return America to an unhyphenated whole. "It's American culture that we all share," says Mills. "We should capitalize on that." Perhaps her two Native American- black-white-Hungarian-French-Catholic-Jewish-American children will lead...
...more choices. 1) Keep the last name they were given at birth. 2) Take the husband's last name. 3) Use three names, as in Hillary Rodham Clinton; or, as women did in the '70s, join the wife's birth name and the husband's birth name with a hyphen -- a practice that in the third generation down the road would produce geometrically expanded multiple-hyphenated nightmares. 4) Use the unmarried name in most matters professional, and use the husband's name in at least some matters personal and domestic. Most men, if they were to wake up one morning...
Gates' brand of scholarship--which he describes in his new book, Loose Canons, as exploring the hyphen in African-American--rejects the more Afrocentric approaches of Jeffries and some other prominent Black scholars...
...America. This book doesn't provide all the right answers, but it raises all the right questions. And in the end, Gates' is a moderate voice, and one that must be heard by both right and left. As he says, the goal has to be exploration of "the hyphen in African-American," not simply one side or the other...
Judaism is different from Christianity, and a hyphen does not make that difference vanish. No one unschooled in Jewish tradition--not Judeo-Christian tradition--can be an authority on Jewish law. I have a guess as to how many years Webb and DeGiorgio have studied Jewish law, but it is in round numbers. Very round...