Word: nonmainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unbelievable. The anonymous people Counter and Reid quote don't seem to understand what got Jeffries into all that trouble. It wasn't his political beliefs. In fact, on February 3, The Crimson defended Jeffries' right to free speech and BSA's "right to invite people with nonmainstream" and even "racist" views of history...
...that Americans have felt before that their historical culture was being overwhelmed by immigrants, but conflicts between earlier- arriving English, Germans and Irish and later-arriving Italians and Jews did not have the obvious and enduring element of racial skin color. And there was never a time when the nonmainstream elements could claim, through sheer numbers, the potential to unite and exert political dominance. Says Bender: | "The real question is whether or not our notion of diversity can successfully negotiate the color line...
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