Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late 19th and early 20th centuries, was elaborated by the Southern historian Ulrich B. Phillips. The premise, which influenced historians well into this century, had it that blacks were innately lazy and incompetent, capable of working only under compulsion. In this view, blacks were childlike innocents, perhaps biologically inferior; slavery, whatever its excesses, was a generally benign means of giving the colored people civilized ways. Gone With the Wind carried that general message...
Born Aurore Dupin in 1804, Sand was four when her father died. Barry dwells on Sand's early life, spent shuttling back and forth between her paternal grandmother's provincial estate and her mother's modest dwellings in Paris. The grandmother despised her "socially inferior" daughter-in-law and continually tried to separate her from the child. Sand later described herself as "the apple of discord" between the two rival mothers. Recalling one particularly violent separation from her mother, Sand wrote...
Ideological discrimination has been no less violent. The tenets of racism have beer developed and continue to be taught at no less than this country's most esteemed universities. The characterizations of blacks as animal, barbarian, infantile, pre-scientific, intellectually inferior, psychologically disadvantaged, and morally unsound continue to buttress the intellectual foundations of social relations in this country. How perfectly consistent that no attempt would be made on the part of universities to study thoroughly the history and civilizations of the African continent without the pressure of vocal militants. How perfectly consistent that American colonizers would ignore all the history...
...national newspaper, which he founded in 1964 and refers to as his "flagship." The Australian is a good, solid journal of politics, business and criticism, paying attention to the arts as well as to sports. There is no paper like it in the U.S. Although writing and perceptions are inferior, The Australian is vaguely reminiscent of London's Observer, which Murdoch vainly tried to buy last year as part of his drive for respectability in Britain. Ironically, The Australian has never made money...
...refrain among the writers: male prejudice and parental expectations create many more problems for women than Freudianism has so far acknowledged. Writes Virginia Clower of Washington, D.C.: "To the extent that our society continues to educate mothers and fathers who see their female children as biological castrates doomed to inferior psychological, moral and social development, we will continue to produce women who regard themselves as second class...