Word: inwardness
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...improvements on his father's habit of writing letters is that more people are touched by Coles' inward struggles, one of the drawbacks is that it invites a kind of topicalism and didacticism which seems quite out of joint with the spirit of this book...
Although racial and economic discrimination is hardly new, the scope of the current sentiment is alarming. Just as middle-class community groups have absorbed lessons in organizing from the civil rights movement, they seem to have turned inward. Their very sense of community, of wholeness, seems to derive from a homogeneity that can breed xenophobia. "Often communities that are the most cohesive are also hostile and fearful of outsiders," says University of Chicago Sociologist Richard Taub. "Community spirit says, 'Take care of your own.' The ethical challenge is to make people see that the world is their community...
Abandoning the shanties and the foreign affairs activism of the past few years, Harvard students this year turned their attention inward. Instead of rallying against the unfairness of the world, they found injustice enough in the Yard...
...With divestment, with Central America, you never know how much [you are] chaning people's attitudes, you never know the whole issue. With SWAT we can say we are experts on the final clubs because we go to Harvard." Theoharis says she thinks activism has gained adherents by turning inward because "it's on an immediate level." And she remains confident that despite the problems faced by college activists, in the end their causes will prevail...
Most students agree that activism at Harvard has changed since the 1960s, saying it has become less confrontational and more cooperative with the University administration. In addition, campus activism has turned inward, diverting its attention from problems abroad...