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...Justice Department under President Bush brought suit against the Piscataway Board of Education for having violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits race-conscious employment decisions. Citing Title VII, a Federal Appeals Court ruled that Piscataway's practices were illegal insofar as they did not remedy any actual discrimination that Williams had suffered. The decision was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court...
...Insofar as this is true, whiteness studies has very little to offer academic, not because "white trash" cannot be an interesting area of study, but because, as West told me, "[t]he whole construct of white trash, which is just as arbitrary and can be just as vicious an any other construct, is what it means to be a particular kind of American, but white American." In other words, people who may be called "white trash" are different from other impoverished members of society only because they are white, but they are not more indicative of white culture, or American...
When Mansfield said that racism will always exist insofar as skin pigmentation differentiates people, West asked in response, "How much racism would have to exist for it to be significant...
...told, the women of '67 account for only 293 of those. We can hardly claim to speak for a generation, except insofar as revolutions, including social ones, are often made by the few on the front edge. We are not the inventors of feminism, but we are its first lifelong beneficiaries, eager and able to enter whatever profession we contemplated. So we define a large part of ourselves by our job titles, and then change the jobs and the titles along the way. Margot Eberman de Ferranti turned 50 and resigned from the civil division at the Justice Department...
...Diversity on the U.C.," insofar as it means having the largest number of candidates possible from all different backgrounds, should enjoy the support and encouragement of all right-thinking people. But, in her article, Rawlins goes farther than that. She writes, "Right now, most of Harvard's students-as women and as people of color-do not have adequate representation on the council." Her reason is not that the current representatives are irresponsible, or negligent, or even downright dumb. Rather, she justifies her claim by stating that "last year, white male undergraduates were doubly represented by their student government...white...