Word: racial
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...Program, along with a panel of Harvard students. The speakers discussed issues ranging from female body image insecurities, stirred by media glamorization of picture-perfect models, to the role of final clubs in the lives of Harvard women. Also discussed were body image issues resulting from specific cultural and racial views. Kimberly N. Foster ’11, a black panelist, said that “in black culture, the thick girl is the idealized girl,” while event organizer Theresa H. Cheng ’08 talked about how Chinese culture focused not only on being pale...
Wright's journey to black liberation theology lay through civil rights turmoil and debates about racial identity. He grew up in Philadelphia, the son and grandson of preachers. He enrolled at Virginia Union University, a historically black college in Richmond, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. In the South, for the first time he saw Christians "who professed faith in Jesus Christ and who believed in segregation, and saw nothing wrong with lynching, saw nothing wrong with Negroes staying in their place," he told Bill Moyers in a PBS interview last week. That experience moved him to leave...
...another round of scrutiny regarding his relationship to the minister and his positions on Wright's views - but to Wright's own message. Because he is right when he says that most Americans don't understand the black church and that their resulting confusion and fear contributes to a racial divide...
...According to Diana C. Robles ’10, one of the UMRP’s 10 student coordinators, the program collects racial information from students’ applications and contacts recently admitted students. The program offers pre-frosh advice on the transition to Harvard and gives them the option of having a host of the same race...
...Fitzsimmons says that the personal interactions encountered upon visiting are often “absolutely critical” to minority students’ decisions to attend Harvard. For these prospective students, the opportunity to view Harvard through the eyes of someone of their own racial group helps de-mystify the Ivy League experience...