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...ensuring each of the upperclass Houses contains comparable ratios of men to women, concentration distribution, and racial proportions, Harvard can assure each undergraduate a similar living experience—at least in terms of interaction with a variety of different personalities. Yet such equality comes at the cost of real diversity. For the sake of diversity within the Houses, Harvard regrettably sacrificed diversity among the Houses...
...recent apology for slavery given by the Virginia State Assembly is great evidence of the huge racial strides that have been made in this country. The unanimous measure, taken by the Assembly of a state that was once home to the capital of the Confederate South, is a symbolic gesture that highlights the attitude changes that have taken place over the past decades. While there still may be hostilities based on ideas of racial essentialism, this apology indicates that beliefs about the innate inferiority of black people have been on the decline. Yet, the disproportionate number of black people living...
...events like the publication of Valerie Solanas’s SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto. Accusations would be leveled later against the overwhelmingly white, middle-class makeup of the Second Wave. Third Wave feminism arose in the mid 1980s and 90s, adding emphasis to queer theory and racial challenges. Part of this movement involved the cultural development of Girl Power, originally exemplified by the no-holds-barred Riot Grrrl and later by a series of pop-stars (Spice Girls, anyone?) as a commercial strategy to sell music and clothes. It’s difficult to imagine a time...
...repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ will be a watershed event for gay citizens much like racial integration was for African Americans,” Osburn said during the banquet...
...1920s when the white hipster Carl Van Vechten published the book Nigger Heaven. They continued their war through attacks on Redd Foxx, blaxploitation and Donald Goines. But all their efforts have been rewarded with gangsta rap, an art form that has made nigger arguably the most well-known racial or ethnic slur on the planet...