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...Washington Post ran a front-page story on a new census report that said 45% of the nation's children under the age of five are racial or ethnic minorities, and that the percentage is increasing primarily because the Hispanic population is growing so rapidly. If you read those facts carefully, you'd probably find them interesting, but not necessarily sufficient to draw any sweeping conclusions about the demographic and cultural future of the country...
...extroverted personality. Her centenary falls next month, [an error occurred while processing this directive] and a special tour (details at blackparisdivas.com) has been devised in celebration of a remarkable life. Baker, later nicknamed "the Black Venus," left the U.S. for France while still a teen, seeking the relative racial freedom of the Parisian stage. Her sensual style of dance quickly won over the city and made her a star. During the late 1920s, she was said to be the highest-paid entertainer in Europe and was certainly among its most photographed - inspiring fashion designers and a frenzy of suitors...
...lines? cutting through the clouds." Made four years before his death, his final photo series cloud (2000) recaptures that view, though what float across the sky are poetic symbols of Aboriginal dispossession: European farm animals and vestiges of Christianity; even the boomerang returns to him as a weapon of racial stereotyping, beautiful but deadly. Riley was a child of the '80s urban-based Aboriginal movement, when art school-educated indigenous Australians like Tracey Moffatt and Gordon Bennett began using the tricks of Postmodernism to critique Australia's colonial past...
...Proportion of Americans younger than 5 who belong to a racial minority group, compared with 33% of the overall population...
...intellectually unfair to blame the act of a lunatic on a political party, whatever his family ties to the Vlaams Belang," says Carl Devos, a political scientist at the University of Ghent. "But the VB is responsible for creating an atmosphere and popularizing the theme of racial tension." He worries that such racially-charged crimes are eroding tolerance in a country that can't exist without it. "It's not like we're living in Beirut," he says. "But we are losing control...