Word: intragroup
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From the extremes of blacker-than-thou to whiter-than-thou. Blacks have squandered unimaginable energy on intragroup color consciousness Isn't it time to appreciate the possibility that to be Black means, in part to reflect on the whole human family? If Blacks have to put any energy at all into intragroup color, let's celebrate it. We've denigrated it too much for much too long. Marvin Hightower...
...considering the geographic origins of the 147 people, the biologists were even able to determine where Eve lived: samples from those of sub-Saharan African descent showed the most intragroup differences, implying that their mtDNA had had more time to change and thus that their ancestors arose earliest. This finding plus the structure of the family tree indicated sub- Saharan origin, a conclusion that agrees with current archaeological and anthropological theory...
...recent series of exchanges with black students we tend to concur with much of the substance of his critique. It is true that many black students do not intelligently utilize Harvard's extraordinary resources and its cosmopolitan environment. It is also indisputably true that much of the intragroup fraternizing is not generally very productive. These criticisms are entirely reasonable. There is also another aspect of this controversy which has not received adequate attention. Kilson's criticisms are rooted in a vision of politics and culture from an earlier generation of intellectuals whose political life was, unlike these "Jack and Jill...