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...inherently unequal," the most integrated schools in the U.S. are in the South. The most segregated are in New York and California. The federal courts--once the preferred tool of integrationists-- have become a major force in the resegregation of schools. And the formerly black-and-white issue of racial integration is more intricate--last year Latinos became the country's largest minority group...
...comparative implications of his opening words—between the common histories and conditions of racial injustice in the United States and South Africa—had an immediate impact among South Africans at the time and indeed highlighted the reason for his invitation. The parallels between both countries had been widely recognized among activists by then, with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Chief Albert Luthuli—then president of the African National Congress (ANC) and the first African recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1960—having issued a co-authored statement against apartheid...
...issues that South Africa currently faces—high unemployment, widespread poverty, the HIV/AIDS pandemic—can be assigned to local and regional circumstances, and yet many of these issues have their origins in a system of racial injustice not dissimilar to one that took hold in the U.S. The history of race and racism is of course an international one, containing dimensions that are, more often than not, difficult to account for within a single narrative. And yet a shortcoming of the American academy has been the persistence of American exceptionalism and the often inward focus of multiculturalism...
...substantive, talking instead about freshman year, housing woes etc., and then I realized that there wasn’t really anything else to say. The whole point really was that we were sitting there in the same room, on the same uncomfortable futons, talking gently around the issues of racial and ethnic diversity at Harvard...
...good simply to be reminded of why a diverse community is good. Morris talks about how important it’s been for her to live in a large black community for the first time. For Laier, moving from Denmark to Cambridge gave her exposure to ethnic and racial diversity. “I came from a completely homogeneous society,” she says. “The only Asian people I’d ever seen were adopted Korean children...