Word: racially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group of Brown University students is demanding an explanation of a racial imbalance in the school's first-year dorms discovered earlier in November by members of the campus chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU...
Apart from losing the benefits of diversity, the Brown students said they are worried that uneven racial distribution will lead to additional strain on the school's residential minority peer counselors, who complete extra training on issues of race and class and offer workshops on those areas to first-years of color...
...ratifies "free exercise" of religion and "freedom of speech" in the First Amendment. A religiously-inspired refusal to help pay for elective abortions is an exercise of religion, and a denial by government of an exemption must survive "strict scrutiny," which is the same standard applied to state-sanctioned racial discrimination...
...some talk of a connection to one of his uncles). The story of how the Hemings family diverged onto opposite sides of the color line says much about "passing," a social practice that shakes more than a few family trees and forces one to question the validity of neat racial categories...
...black ancestors who passed is hard to estimate, though historians suspect the number is sizable. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, author of Sweeter the Juice, a book about relatives who passed as white, says she has received 40,000 letters from people affected by passing. "We have to rethink what these racial boxes mean," she says. While blacks have long acknowledged dual bloodlines, more whites are now embracing such revelations. In January, Jillian Simms, 29, will publish a history of her great-grandmother, who was Vassar's first black graduate but passed most of her life as white. Oddly, Simms...