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...identity and simply “choose one.” “Only one?” she thinks to herself. Shakespeare’s famous quote, “Deny thy father and refuse thy name,” comes to mind. Squeezing into one racial box, choosing one race and denying another, and ultimately changing the way one has come to identify as a person, makes life for the multiracial individual more difficult than it ought to be. Many institutions have come to understand the importance of racial complexities and have accommodated the need...
...limited experience at Harvard, I have already observed the benefits of Bender’s revised standard, which, despite the nefarious reasons for its implementation, remains an essential part of the College’s admissions policies. The student body today is diverse on numerous levels—racial, sexual, religious, social, academic—and each of those qualities is crucial in the general makeup of the community. However, this same type of apathy towards diversity that led to the marginalization of Jewish students persists in campus discourse. Unlike the 1920s though, this apathy is manifested in students?...
...white passenger on a Montgomery, Ala. bus sparked the influential 1960s civil rights movement. Her arrest in 1955 provoked the 381-day bus boycott in Montgomery, led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Following the boycott, the United States government instituted the 1964 federal Civil Rights Act, which banned racial discrimination in public spaces. Parks has long been remembered in history as one of the pioneers in the civil rights movement. Although Parks was only a 42 year-old seamstress, her act is well-known by children and scholars alike. “I actually cried when...
...great-grandmother might also have mentioned that her son's reflexive prejudice was a bit ironic given the innumerable racial slights and indignities he had suffered in America, including in the Army, at the hands of whites. But then, it's hardly an unusual pattern. Just look at the black religious leaders-like Rev. Bernice King, a daughter of Martin Luther King Jr.; evangelical juggernaut Bishop T. D. Jakes; and groups like the Memphis-based Coalition of African American Pastors-who've joined ranks with the conservative Right in opposing gay marriage. They say gay rights are not the same...
...extremely important that colleges and universities continue to seek diverse student bodies through their admissions processes. Under the present system, however, a simple yes-or-no question about racial identity can only produce a simplistic understanding of diversity. If colleges are to build entering classes that represent a variety of individuals—and not simply a variety of minority groups—they will have to start by renovating the process by which they choose their students. The checked box must...