Word: mainstream
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...belongs there, refusing to accept that Obama can authentically view himself as an individual who happily lives his life as a black man embracing the American Dream. Steele's simplistic labels ("bargainers" and "challengers") disregard the subtleties we employ to navigate our way through the racial land mines of mainstream America. Perhaps he is the one who needs labels and identity cards to know who he is. Preston Foster, Lawrenceville...
Getting the larger health care system to buy into the idea is another matter. Currently some, but not all, U.S. health insurers cover some form of massage therapy. To gain broader, more mainstream acceptance, Hinshaw says, the treatment will have to prove cost-effective as a pain-reliever. But, in most hospitals, where patients are cycled through intensive care units in a "highly choreographed sequence," there's not a lot of time or imagination to squeeze in massage therapy. Further research, perhaps showing that massage can shorten patients' hospital stays or reduce their analgesics use, may prompt hospitals to include...
...regard for how these women are treated or how their work affects them both physically and psychologically. “Dines’ concern is tantamount to worrying over the burger-flippers of the world, who are victims of the fast-food industry,” Caldwell writes. But mainstream heterosexual porn, the subject of Gail Dines’ talk, subjects women to unique forms of suffering. Dines characterized pornography as a “body-punishing industry” in which male actors with chemically supported erections test the limits of the female body. The women involved pretend...
...Times” best-sellers list. Now a fixture on Starbucks bookshelves across the nation, “The Kite Runner,” when first published, was a list of unknowns: a new author’s first novel and a story about a culture unfamiliar to most mainstream readers. Subduing those question marks required captivating, original fiction. That challenge, which the novel met so spectacularly, is analogous to the one the new film of the same name faces. “The Kite Runner” is a subtitled film in a language (Dari, the dialect of Farsi...
...that Chavez’s project of 21st century socialism is a complicated affair, but one with which—today—progressives must stand in critical solidarity. This requires two things.First, we must doggedly document and resist the arrogant propagandizing that scars this country’s mainstream intellectual currents. Partly, this position needs to be understood as a rejection of the priorities of American Empire: When a resource-rich client economy jumps from the neoliberal bandwagon, as Venezuela under Chavez has done, it should be unsurprising that it becomes a cause for bipartisan concern. This past July...