Word: minter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Minter has confronted plenty of criticism for trying to promote a program that looks for a middle ground somewhere between meek acceptance of the status quo's evolution and more confrontational social activism. Specifically, AWARE has earned more than a few barbs from critics who claim it is "preaching to the converted." That is, many critics say Harvard students are sufficiently open-minded that racial sensitivity efforts would be better directed elsewhere...
...Minter says racial and ethnic divisions still fester in daily undergraduate life, if only because most students are unwilling to face up to their own ambivalence. It is one thing to disavow intolerance, Minter says; it is quite another to bring it down...
There are, Minter admits, plenty of trying moments. "But then," she says, "occasionally there is the exceptionally joyful or rewarding moment that makes it all worthwhile...
...Minter, one such moment came this fall, at the so-called commUNITY picnic, sponsored by AWARE, which attracted some 400 students for an afternoon of food and music...
...That's how you create cross-cultural dialogue," Minter says. "You get people in the same room together to realize they have a lot of common bonds...