Word: racialization
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...involvement with The Harvard Crimson in the last four years has caused sobering realizations about the continued existence of racial self-segregation on campus. Despite tremendous and strenuous outreach efforts, The Crimson as a whole has remained a mostly homogenous organization, with few minorities, especially black students, ever showing interest in participating in the paper’s operations...
...article and an apology by The Crimson after public protest. But while the piece was undermined by its language and wildly unsupported overgeneralizations, the underlying message of the article, that self-segregation hurts the ability of students to truly learn from each other and build meaningful friendships regardless of racial and ethnic background, was a valid point worth considering...
Despite the individual interactions that occur across racial boundaries, an overarching trend towards racial self-segregation does plague our campus. Even within the bubble of diversity that Harvard has created here, many students have not fully embraced the carefully-constructed opportunity to gain real understanding from those different from themselves through friendships and close interaction. It can be seen in the dining halls, in blocking groups and, notably, in extracurricular groups—the largest sphere of group interaction at Harvard. While it is certainly not the rule, race is often a powerful factor in determining the friendships, social interactions...
Among the students who have remained in the system, there remain vast discrepancies in academic performance between tax brackets and racial groups—the so-called “achievement...
Portman’s letter emphasized the common historical origins and racial similarities of warring Israelis and Palestinians and condemned the notion that either group could be vindicated to the detriment of the other...