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...female faculty and among the several minority groups. For American Blacks, more than the other groups, there is a contemporary residue of past discrimination that is manifested in on-going socio-economic disadvantage....For women, the main problem is the residue of past discrimination, as well as continuing, often implicit, prejudice and disadvantages in career opportunities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report Excerpts | 3/3/1989 | See Source »

...example, Nitza Agrait '91, a planning committee member, said that one form of racism occurs at Harvard with the dearth of minority faculty members. Because teachers may bring racism into the classroom by displaying their implicit biases against one race, both students and professors must be aware of such inequalities, she said...

Author: By Amy B. Shuffelton, | Title: AWARE Week Discussion of Racial Issues Starts Today | 2/21/1989 | See Source »

...Peanuts had made the list.) I'm not trying to harp on his errors. (Although the good citizens of Tallahassee will be thrilled to note that Jacksonville is listed as the capital of Florida.) But we must be wary of a 600-page list of information with an implicit message that says "You must read me." Perhaps knowledge is power, but is that knowledge confined to the superficial identifications E.D. Hirsch finds important? We should keep in mind another educational truism: "A little learning can be a dangerous thing...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Culture Schlock | 1/20/1989 | See Source »

...movie work in Mississippi. He and co-producer Robert Colesberry stalked 300 towns as likely locations, with the director impishly yelling, "Alabama Burning?" "Georgia Burning?" "Arkansas Burning?" But he selected Mississippi -- to the delight of the state film commission, which was willing to display its old racist scowl in implicit contrast to its fresh new face of many colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Fire This Time | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...flaws in Hampton's logic are particularly disturbing because they betray a widely held belief that homosexual relations somehow "hurt" others. This reasoning is an implicit approval of the violent actions against gays epitomized by this murder...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: People's Court | 1/6/1989 | See Source »

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