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Self-segregation occurs when, for whatever reason, members of a racial or ethnic group isolate themselves from the greater community. In a Crimson dining hall survey of 45 students, about 58 percent of students believe Harvard to be at least somewhat self-segregated. But self-segregation is a loaded term: it implies something is wrong with the way in which people interact with each other. “A lot of people would take issue with using that sort of language. Many people, myself included, feel that there is a space for individual communities on campus,” says...
Jason C.B. Lee ’08, president of the Black Students Association (BSA), objects to the way that some students characterize social groups based along racial and ethnic lines. “Segregation has a negative connotation, like ‘black students are imposing this extreme negative on themselves. Segregation is terrible and now they’re doing it to themselves.’ We kind of balk at the term ‘self-segregation’ because we feel good about what we do here, how we interact with each other...
Because of the racial connotations of the term, self-segregation is often overlooked in situations where race is not the uniting factor. “There are also situations where people associate with others who have a shared experience, not necessarily a cultural background, but it doesn’t have the same kind of stigma attached. It might not be as obvious when things like that happen,” says Deborah Y. Ho ’07. In other words, what we call self-segregation might just be a more visible manifestation of the relationships that exist...
...most visible manifestations of “self-segregation,” many blocking groups are predominantly or entirely composed of one race. The Harvard administration does not release racial statistics in blocking, so it is difficult to evaluate the diversity of blocking groups. The phenomenon was easier to notice in the era before the randomization of the housing system, when students had a great degree of choice over the House in which they would be placed. According to a 1994 Crimson op-ed, 80 percent of Black students opted to live in the Quad...
...style that may be Iggy’s nod to 1950s crooners, the title track proves enjoyable. Well-placed saxophones in “Passing Cloud” liven up an otherwise monotonous stretch of the album. “Mexican Guy,” despite its off-color racial humor, does have a infectious beat. Lyrically speaking, the album still exhibits the nihilism and quasi-political fury characteristic of “Raw Power” and punk rock in general, while managing to be modern at the same time. “Free & Freaky...