Word: racially
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...Louie said that while her respondents acknowledged a racial hierarchy and class inequality, they subscribed to the idea that their ethnic culture was more important for success than financial and educational resources...
...recently published book by Vivian S. Louie, assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, suggests that, contrary to what many believe, socioeconomic background and racial discrimination has a strong influence on the educational opportunities of Chinese-American college students...
...Norma helped mobilize support for the class action against Denny's in the early 1990s. Callender, 35, says he raised membership in San Jose from just 100 in 2000 to 2,500 in 2004. With an operating budget of $100,000, his local group weighs in on everything from racial profiling to employment discrimination. "For me, it's about giving back," says Callender, a water-company lobbyist, when explaining why he got involved. He is training the next generation of leaders through the chapter's Youth Leadership Academy. After all, the future of the civil rights movement will...
...Racial supremacists hold two contradictory beliefs: 1) that one race is mentally and physically superior to another and 2) that at all costs the disdained race must never get a chance to prove that first belief wrong. In 1908, Jack Johnson shattered the racists' worldview with his two gloved fists when, after years chasing a title shot, he pummeled Tommy Burns to become the first black heavyweight champion of the world...
...baseball) to draw passionate conclusions that few people would disagree with (war is terrible, racism is evil). Johnson is a less obvious subject and in some ways more complicated. Blackness is about race, even more blatantly than Baseball or Jazz, and yet Johnson was not self-consciously a racial hero. He would not kowtow to racists, but he also rebuffed Tuskegee Institute president Booker T. Washington and other black community leaders who chided him for fraternizing with whites...