Word: racialization
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...Though refugees do eventually make it out of the camps, Australia's policies are nonetheless shameful?and have plenty of historical precedent. The country's refusal to accept refugees from Nazi Germany was notorious in the 1930s. ("We have no racial problems in Australia and no desire to import any," a government spokesman snapped at the time.) Likewise the White Australia immigration policy, which restricted immigration from countries such as India and China until 1973, was a gross insult to the generations of Asian pioneers (principally Chinese) who had helped develop Australia's farming, mining and mercantile sectors...
...read Gish Jen's article "racial profiling" with great interest. Although she does not believe that racial profiling based on appearance is the right thing to do, this is the rule unfortunately rather than the exception everywhere in the world. Her facial features gave her fellow Chinese in China the impression that she was no different from them, and they were bewildered by her insistence on being American because she was born in that country. I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, and at a conference 15 years ago, I was asked by another participant where I was from. When...
...workers had been subcontracted by Yale in what activists claimed was mean-spirited attempt to divide the workers along racial lines...
...Officers were sent to Lamont Library to investigate a report of a person yelling racial slurs. The party was gone on arrival...
...freshman essays. In Archie’s view, Harvard represented the best, and he wanted students to know that they were in a special place. The bow tie, the lapel flower, the dignity of his discourse were all part of that. So was the insistence that the subject of racial differences be introduced to freshmen in the context of discussion of texts between faculty and students, an exercise rich in questions and short on dogmatic answers. The exercise respects the intelligence of those participating in it. This is what you should expect here: not finger-shaking didacticism, not preaching...