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...underlying assumption that it is race that dictates personality, that traits such as slavish imitation, “inscrutability” and “delicateness” are no accident, but the product of birth, and as intrinsic to Asian-Americans as their hair color. It is the racial basis of stereotype, and not any one specific stereotype, that is offensive; for example, a piece exploiting the old depiction of black American men as hypermasculine would be no less deplorable. And yet, oddly, no one is likely to soon write a “Gay or White...
...need not be protested”), and that the writing is protected as free speech and free press (“it cannot be protested”). The first argument is easily disproven. It supposes that mockery, by being different from more severe expressions of racial ill will, is necessarily distinct from them. If this is true, then what taboo bars enjoyment of blackface comedy? The derision inherent in blackface, like that in “Gay or Asian?”, helps acclimatize audiences to a lower level of esteem for a racial minority. In the case of Asian...
...Harvard Law School presents a modernist interpretation of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Director and professor Bruce Hay envisions the play as a parable of racial intolerance, including a controversial scene from the original script that’s found in the appendix and rarely performed, suggesting racial undertones in the work. Tickets $5 with Harvard I.D. (HBO). 7:30 p.m., with additional Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Runs through April 24. Ames Courtroom Auditorium, Austin Hall...
...said that there is also a “powerful relationship” between racial and economic segregation...
...formation of the Houston Institute is the latest in a string of efforts by Ogletree to combat racial inequality in America...