Word: racializing
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...there was not a thing in common among these people apart from race,” remarks Scanlan on first meeting the students, Yet one of the main missions of Code Switch 7 is to evoke the individual—and highly personal—matter of dealing with racial issues. The common experience of being black at the A.R.T. provided them with an initial starting point. “It’s really isolating, because our class is very homogenous and we’re such a minority,” Brewster says...
...foot on campus, the Freshman Dean’s Office tells students that “questions about identity and privilege seem especially important to consider”—identity with respect to “race and class,” that is. Socioeconomic and racial components of one’s life are worthy of focus, but these are not the only areas about which critical thought would benefit students. In the instance of Community Conversations, the College places an “emphasis not on finding ‘right answers?...
...some Evangelical churches are finally realizing that the racial divide is alive and well. Where have they been? Where might clergy look today for more current insights regarding integration? Gays in our society. But of course, these churches will continue to condemn gays, with the aid of their Scripture, in much the way they castigated blacks. What...
...RACIAL TENSIONS ERUPT...
...time being, write-in responses still often need to be shoehorned into broader categories for the purpose of following certain laws based on official statistics. But in the longer term, the write-in box could prove to be an even more momentous step in the evolution of racial categorization than the ability to check more than one race. By encouraging wider swaths of people to explain as precisely as possible how they see themselves, the Census is implicitly acknowledging that its count of the U.S. population is increasingly becoming a conduit for self-expression. "We are measuring the characteristics...