Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"There was an isolation surrounding Af-Am," he says. "There was an us vs. them mentality."
Other pioneering black students in the contemporary era experienced similarly racist attitudes at the College, along with a sharp sense of isolation. In "Travels With Charlie: In Search of Afro-America" Herbert W. Nickens '69 recalled his painful adjustment freshman year.
The setting for An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence, the third and best of Jamie Harrison's laconic Montana mystery novels, is the small town of Blue Deer, just miles from Yellowstone National Park but far, far away from anything resembling mainstream, middle-class America. Though it's not a high-crime...
The band of the Disallowed eventually establish Haven, where they install a communal oven in the center of the town and then live in willed isolation from the outside world. Haven thrives for decades until the male descendants of the founding fathers return from service in World War II and...
When her family discovers that Julie, in fact, is not going to the movies twice a week, they degrade her intellectual curiosity. Her daughter Lisa (Erica P. Rabbit '00), calls her retarded, and her husband beats her when he finds out she is enrolled in the class. But this isolation...