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...MINTER REMEMBERS confronting racial issues at an early age, and she recalls that her parents bestowed her with a strong sense of African-American identity...
...parents dealt very openly with those types of questions," Minter recalls. "I was aware of racism, and I was raised with the tools to deal with that. If you have a strong sense of self you can get through a lot of tough situations...
Over the years, Minter says, she has had to face more than her fair share of "tough situations," particularly since biracialism has brought some complications of its own. For instance, during her first year at Harvard, Minter says she and other light-skinned Black women were "harassed and threatened" during a tour of Southern Black colleges with the Harvard-Radcliffe Kuumba singers...
Realizations like that are one reason Minter maintains a skeptic's perspective when it comes to race relations at Harvard. Minter is not one to deny the leaps and bounds by which race relations on campus have improved over the last 10 or 20 years. But she's also not one to overlook lingering attitudes which she says still divide the campus along racial and cultural lines...
...There's a lot of denial about some of the dynamics that exist on Harvard's campus as well as some other campuses," says Minter...