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...capital since 1971. It also will be the first at-bat for a team trying to score with a demographic that has largely turned away from baseball. Just 8.7% of baseball fans nationwide last year, as measured by Simmons Market Research Bureau, were black--which mirrors the sport's racial makeup: 9% of last season's major leaguers were black, the fewest in 20 years, according to a University of Central Florida study. Baseball's back in D.C., but to endure in a city that is 60% African American, the Nats need to do what the sport has not--bring...
...also more depressed and withdrawn--a natural reaction, says Nishina, but one that "can subsequently lead to more victimization." The studies also indicate that schools take too narrow a view of what constitutes bullying. Physical aggression is forbidden, as are such forms of verbal bullying as sexual harassment and racial slurs. But the rules are generally silent about less incendiary name calling. "You're probably not going to get into trouble if you call someone fat or stupid," Nishina says. "But our research suggests victimized students felt equally...
Instead of simply enforcing or exploiting the African-American stereotypes present in other films (like Soul Plane), Woodruff plays with them and allows his Beauty Shop to become a place of simultaneous racial diversity and unity. Rather than have Norris’s hairdressers make stereotypical comments for the sake of a good laugh from his audience, he allows them to intelligently display diversity and racial identity...
...Crash begins, people of Hispanic, Korean, African, Caucasian, and Middle-Eastern descent verbally tear holes in each other—a Martian could pick up on the racial tension...
Another misfire is the narrative thread about Iranian convenience store owner Farhad and a Hispanic locksmith. The subplot about Daniel the locksmith (Michael Peña) initially seems promising. After stoically listening to Jean’s racial slurs, Daniel returns home to comfort his daughter after she imagines hearing a gunshot, in a scene that, surprisingly, manages to be touching without being sentimental...