Word: racialization
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...efforts to institutionalize universalism have been disappointing. The U.N., intended to be the parliament of man, has instead become a cockpit of rivalries that often sharpen, not lessen, feelings of national and racial hostility. Our other famous attempt, the Olympics, has also fallen short. The opening and closing ceremonies can be sweet celebrations of our oneness. But sandwiched in between are two weeks of doping, cheating, clawing and jousting to earn you a flag-draped victory lap and gold to bring home to the tribe...
...adopting the new language, Ford was responding to charges that its money had been used by some grantees to advance anti-Israel and anti-Semitic agendas. These charges focused largely on the actions of Ford grantees at the 2001 United Nations Conference Against Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa. As a result, Ford had also faced substantial pressure from the American Jewish community to address the issue...
...praise will nonetheless have to deal with the repercussions of the sentiment that he expresses. Naturally, genetic predictions do not affect an individual in the sense that his or her genes might defy expectations. Discrimination based on perceived innate qualities of one sex or race does exist, as the racial “sciences” of the not-too-distant past remind...
...efforts to institutionalize universalism have been disappointing. The U.N., intended to be the parliament of man, has instead become a cockpit of rivalries that often sharpen, not lessen, feelings of national and racial hostility. Our other famous attempt, the Olympics, has also fallen short. The opening and closing ceremonies can be sweet celebrations of our oneness. But sandwiched in between are two weeks of doping, cheating, clawing and jousting to earn you a flag-draped victory lap and gold to bring home to the tribe...
...book, Louie also suggests that the perception of racial discrimination—the source of what she calls “immigrant pessimism”—looms large...