Word: isolationism
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Set in the present day West and Midwest and narrated by a young, unnamed heroin addict, the short stories in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son etch in steely detail a world where pain, violence and profound isolation are as regular as Happy Hour at the local bar. Beauty and horror...
It was arguably the boycott or Arizona, for its refusal to accept Martin Luther King day as a national holiday, that caused a reversal in that state's policy. The boycott and resulting isolation of South Africa for its abhorrent racial policies contributed to that country's unwillingness to begin...
It's weird. Mather's reinforced-steel fire doors and maximum-security elevators encourage isolation and fragmentation. If the unknown architect (a Timothy Leary devotee--there's no other explanation for his architectural monstrosity) had his way, no Matherite would ever get to know any other Matherite.
Thus, Elijah Muhammad, the late messiah and absolute ruler of the Nation, preached a message of Black supremacy and racial isolation as intrinsic to Islam. Malcolm X, the foremost among Elijah's ministers, was also a disciple of bigotry until he reached his crucial epiphany when, brought into close contact...
But Ali responded that "other schools don't have the same problems," noting that Black students may be intimidated by the academic profession because "we don't see role models--going into academia is like going into isolation from the [Black] community."