Word: negro
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...first crisis of conscience came when, as a dishwasher, he noticed a white cook spitting into the soup. To tell or not to tell the boss was the question. In the South, such tattling would have led to his being fired. He pondered his dilemma: "I wondered if a Negro who did not smile and grin was as morally loathsome to whites as a cook who spat into the food." Virtue, in this instance, triumphed...
...stereotypes has an effect on society. Ralph Ellison has said "it conditions the reader to accept the less worthy values of society. It is," to follow Ellison, "in the realm of the irrational... that the stereotype grows... The Negro stereotyped is really an image of the unorganized, irrational forces of American life, forces through which, by projecting them in forms of images of an easily dominated minority, the white individual seeks to be at home in the vast unknown world of America. Perhaps," Ellison concludes, "the object of the stereotypes is not so much to crush the Negro...
...complex poetry of the soul and the gonads." In her middle age, a rich widow and an expatriate, Rozelle marries a swami who had been the cultural darling of her Nashville set. His attraction is that he is no swami at all, but a brilliant fraud-a Mississippi-born Negro who taught himself to compose poetry in Hindi...
Engaged. Arthur Ashe Jr., 33, the 1975 Wimbledon singles champion; and Jeanne Marie Moutoussamy, 25, a freelance photographer who met Ashe last year, when she snapped his picture at a United Negro College Fund benefit...
...Professor Leo Wiener of Harvard published a magnificent volume...devoted to the thesis that Maya and Nahuatl languages were derived from the Mandingo of Negro Africa. Some three thousand Maya-Mexican and African words were presented as evidence...