Word: racism
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Though he would be the last to deny that in past years the art world, like most things American, has been disfigured by racism, Puryear does not find his own blackness an impediment. "Right from the start, I thought, No one can keep me from being an artist." He speaks of feeling the inaccessibility of Africa. "There is an incredible pain," he says, "that we black people feel at not being able to reach back and touch the country of origin the way that every other hyphenated American can and does. Being there made me realize how inescapably American...
...been made in this regard? A: The Swedish Commission on Ethnic Prejudice and Discrimination for which I worked in the late '70s was set up as a response to discrimination. This is certainly something all of us need to work more on and why the upcoming U.N. Conference on racism, which will be held in South Africa in September, is of such significance...
...only a few of the Hispanic performers who have found a place within mainstream American show business. Protesting Hispanics have to face the fact that racial quotas are dangerous in any form. They exclude others simply on the basis of race. And isn't that the root of racism? Wouldn't it be better for everyone if we had color-blind television instead? ARTURO AYALA MARGAIN Mexico City...
...Ajjampur acknowledges that while he had dreamed of working abroad, he had always thought he would move to the U.S., where communities of Indians already exist in high-tech areas. "I heard a lot about Germany, the racism and all that stuff," Ajjampur says of the country's reputation for racially motivated attacks on foreigners. "To my surprise, the people are really warm and friendly...
...used as a campaign slogan "Kinder statt Inder," which means "children instead of Indians." The slogan was meant to suggest that the state should properly educate German children to fill the country's high-tech jobs rather than bring in foreigners. But many people considered the phrase anti-immigrant racism...