Word: prism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...several Harvard students founded Prism, a group dedicated to giving biracial and multiracial Harvard students a voice of their...
Another meeting held in October was sparsely attended, and Maxwell says when Brathwaite decided to return to his West Virginia home for the spring semester, Prism again began to fall apart...
Maxwell, a member of Prism's executive board, says plans are in the works to revitalize Prism next year, and that even though the group hasn't been very active this year, it has succeeded in its most important task: raising awareness that multiracial students "didn't necessarily have to go to the BSA [Black Students Association] or not be involved in anything...
Though the people who attended the Prism meetings were of all different backgrounds, Maxwell says "one common denominator" that holds the group's members together is the feeling that they don't entirely belong in any other ethnic organization...
...sight of dead children opens an abyss in the mind, of course. The wound may heal better if we not only sift through rubble and the mystery of evil, but also look out at the horizon. A helpful exercise is to study Oklahoma City and the 1990s through the prism of a new book called Walt Whitman's America (Knopf). Here, David S. Reynolds, professor of American Literature and American Studies at New York City's Baruch College, splendidly examines the culture that formed the greatest American poet and the greatest American poem, Leaves of Grass, which was first published...