Word: racially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediate conclusion -- that the culprit is the Haitian boyfriend of her Austrian au pair girl -- will offend liberal sensibilities, especially since it turns out to be correct. Bellow has ruffled racial feathers before, notably in Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970) and The Dean's December (1982), and his new heroine's thoughts will not heal those old wounds: "These people came up from the tropical slums to outsmart New York, and with all the rules crumbling here as elsewhere, so that nobody could any longer be clear in his mind about anything, they could do it." But Clara is here...
...have stated that the problems involving race and sport cannot be solved by affirmative action, the major tool to redress racial inequality in American society...
Young men flinging stones at tanks. Streets blockaded by burning tires. Helmeted troops firing into crowds of rioters. Night after night, such images once gave television viewers around the world a chilling picture of South Africa's racial and political turmoil. But when Pretoria declared a state of emergency in June 1986 and imposed tough new press-censorship regulations, the scenes of violence suddenly disappeared. So, to a large extent, did television's interest in the story. As a result, there has been a significant drop in network coverage of South Africa...
...century, when the legal battle against Jim Crow laws was being pressed by the N.A.A.C.P., Negro returned, but with a respectful uppercase N. That gave way to black during the militant days of sit-ins and mass demonstrations during the 1960s. Blunt, proud and unequivocal, black embodied the sheer racial confidence that the civil rights movement had engendered...
...denunciation of Duke by Bush, Reagan and Atwater had an ironic ring. Ever since the 1960s, strategists have lured white Southerners to the G.O.P. with thinly disguised racial appeals. The Reagan Administration opposed extension of the Voting Rights Act, affirmative-action programs and busing to achieve school integration. In 1986 the Republican National Committee supported the purging of voting lists in Louisiana, ostensibly to eliminate residents who had moved or died but actually, as it conceded in an internal memo, to reduce black turnouts. Only recently, Reagan contended that some black civil rights leaders cling to profitable posts by claiming...