Word: racially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of death threats. Rod and Marilynn did not let the racism of the fans inhibit their lives, and, characteristically, they did not complain about the insults to Twins officials and teammates. (Carew had long before learned to live with prejudice. Even today, he sometimes hears a fan shouting racial slurs from the safety of the stands.) The Panamanian was swept into Marilynn's family-her mother has lived with them for four years. Marriage and children-Charryse, 3½, and Stephanie, 2-have stabilized Carew's life. Although he remains an Episcopalian, he studies his wife...
Institutional racism has to do with the structure and function of our society rather than with the attitudes of individuals. Institutional racism consists of those practices and procedures in our community that harm racial minorities whether or not intended. Indeed, institutional racism could be the unintended outcome of behavior thought to be helpful. Institutional racism, therefore, has to do with effects or consequences rather than intentions. Racial minorities determine whether or not behavior is racist in terms of its negative effect. Racial majorities determine whether or not behavior is racist in terms of its positive intent. Behavior with a positive...
Racism has to do with economic, educational, political and other institutions that are controlled by one racial group that arbitrarily limits the participation of the members of other racial groups in society. Any indicators of participation--income, occupation, education, life-expectancy, community decision making--demonstrate that people identified with black and brown racial populations have been arbitrarily excluded and dealt with in unfair ways. Because the basis for treating groups of people unjustly is their race, such unjust practices are appropriately labeled racism and the practitioners appropriately should be called racists. Institutional racism may be practiced by any group that...
Still, there is no racial slur in the first two episodes of Soap that Archie Bunker has not uttered before. Though the sex jokes may be new to prime time, they are familiar to anyone who has watched Mary Hartman or followed what seems to be the terminal lust of the Globatron girls in All That Glitters. Seven years ago ABC rejected All in the Family, a fact that officials of network affiliates still discuss with steel in their voices. For Norman Lear, who produced all three shows, Soap is the sincerest form of flattery, a sweaty attempt to play...
Even more notably, Luscomb has gone ahead and acted upon her beliefs, from fighting racial prejudice to outwitting the State Department in order to visit the People's Republic of China she so admires. Many people write, argue or theorize. Florence Luscomb has acted instead. And actions always have spoken louder than words