Word: jacksons
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According to Robert P. Jackson, director of minority recruitment and associate director of admissions at Yale, the Elis are committed to attracting minorities to New Haven...
...extent to which Americans have gone to sculpt and alter their own identities, with examples such as the market for professionally written term papers, a retirement community in Florida designed to offer its residents a 24/7 Disney World experience, celebrity quick-change artists like Madonna and Michael Jackson and a woman who underwent 20 plastic surgeries to remake herself in the image of a Barbie doll. He points out the difference between the "inner-directed" character valued in America's past--composed of personal qualities and goals inspired by one's upbringing--and today's "other-directed" character, in which...
Current HRDC President Jessica K. Jackson '99 summed up the tone of the evening's election...
...straighten" hair--even then, a politically controversial process--but she also sold a "hot comb," which did in fact straighten kinky hair, consciously tapping into a racial aesthetic that favored Caucasian features over "African" physical characteristics. Such celebrities as Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson and Michael Jackson would become cases in point. Walker's products, aided by before-and-after ads that rivaled anything Madison Avenue would invent, made their way into virtually every black home...
Bigger wasn't only better during the 1950s and '60s, bigger was best. The Cadillac Coupe de Ville was as long as a city block, with tail fins extending to the suburbs. Elvis had big hair, the Beatles came along with even bigger hair, and the Jackson Five arrived with stupendously massive hair...