Word: racialization
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...that the only scholarship left to Harvard is for black students. In order to get the scholarship, he paints his face a dark shade of khaki. He gets the scholarship, forcing him to go to Harvard as an African American. Soon, he meets and falls for a black girl. Racial misunderstandings lead to meaningful hilarity! In one memorable scene, Professor Banks, played by Jones, calls for Mark Watson, to which Howell responds “Right on.” Oh, well, then, he must be black! It is essentially the opposite of Eddie Murphy?...
...Radcliffe Quadrangle (or “Quad,” to all) has never escaped its legacy of marginality. Historically it provided a distant home for fringe groups on campus : first women, then eccentrics, then racial minorities. Today, the Quad is as distant and divisive as ever, but the roll of the dice determines which students are exiled there. Although Quad residents no longer have to walk miles to play tennis at six in the morning, as they did in the early days of Radcliffe, College administrators continue to struggle with the inequalities that characterize a limb of Harvard that...
...there.” Sure enough, by 1996, the percentage of black students in the Quad Houses was five times as large as in the MAC Quad “White Triangle” of Eliot, Winthrop and Kirkland—24.6 percent versus 4.8 percent. The racial disparity between the Quad and river was practically unthinkable, but real, and it left administrators little choice but to randomize housing to correct it. As then-Administrative Dean of FAS Nancy Maull and computer science professor Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrote with in a 1994 report...
...seems wrong to think of these people and these issues, these complicating levels of class struggle and economics, in just racial terms. And it is wrong, in the sense that these people are not wholly defined and owned by the color of their skin. But it’s right to acknowledge the realities of many Latin American societies, because the racism and nationalism and class elitism are so interwoven parts of the same oppressive tapestry...
Smith wore a hijab—a scarf many Muslim women wear around their heads—to the rally. According to her campaign literature, she wears the hijab “in solidarity with Muslims targeted by hate crimes and racial profiling...