Word: mainstreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...succeed on the white man's terms?" When these students heard their home, their families, their people, their heritage thrown so heedlessly into the categories of "disadvantaged," "underprivileged," they began to feel that instead of being given an opportunity to learn and participate freely within the mainstream of society, as it was called, they were being asked to abandon, disassociate themselves from all that had formed and nourished them, to abandon all that for the dubious privilege of becoming an Afro-Saxon (a Black-white man.) And second class Black-white men at that. They began to distrust their "special...
Like millions of Americans, I wish Senator Humphrey [Oct. 18] well. I am sure that in not too many weeks the Senator will be back in the mainstream of life. His misfortune in needing radical bladder surgery, and having public attention called to it, may turn out to be good fortune for thousands of others...
Communist Party: Gus Hall is running for president on a platform that is not designed to attract mainstream businessmen, but then, that is not a group the Communist Party has ever sought to enlist. Hall, who ran for election in 1972, was originally a mine worker in Minnesota, and one of his most notable campaign slogans is, "You wouldn't elect your boss as shop steward. Why elect his stooge to public office...
...serving pronouncements of conversion to "the true faith" made by diplomatic poker players like Kissinger, Callaghan and Ian Smith/John Vorster, you are crazy. More to the point, you are demonstrating to the Third World tunnel vision and psychopathogenic shortsightedness characteristic of a ruling class that is fading from the mainstream of man's historical evolution...
...aren't the best place to look. Majority Report, a biweekly newspaper published in New York City, doesn't have the listings of events around here, but it talks about women, minorities, politics (not just Democratic and Republican) and workers and makes an effort to counteract the distortions in mainstream media coverage of these topics that we are bombarded with incessantly...