Word: racial
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MACACA n. A racial slur? A kind of monkey? Virginia Senator George Allen, who used it at a campaign rally when he spotted an Indian-American volunteer from his opponent's camp, might define it as "the end of my re-election campaign...
...response to a recent controversial column in The Crimson and signs of racial tension at Dartmouth College, students and faculty gathered yesterday to raise awareness of issues facing Native Americans...
...wayside, will remain stranded on the outskirts. But there’s something noble in the attempt. She’s not been an accomplice to white flight from the Hispanic label. She’s refused to become a player in this mad dash toward ascension on the racial hierarchy, to feed into the hysteria of becoming white.But, sometimes, it makes for a strained interaction. It first dawned on me that she might actually be white the first time—at age 18—I donned, or attempted to don, a backwards cap. Disapprovingly, she remarked that...
...Culture of Collaboration. When looking at the Web site, it is quite easy to notice the lack of diversity. The Web site is composed homogenously of only bad qualities. Although we are unclear of how this fits into the racial and gender diversity on campus, the UC should nonetheless look into incentives to increase the participation of good Web design in the UC Web site arena...
...hero of the civil rights movement, is heartsick over the prospect that the Supreme Court might end the forcible imposition of integration in the society. But Lewis is a sunny soul, and he told me, "Society has come so far, and we're certainly not going backward." Even if racial preferences are ruled unconstitutional, "people are going to find a way to do it anyway." The Congressman is quite right. Diversity has been written into the dna of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased. In fact, there...