Word: racism
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...writers are gradually receiving the recognition and legitimacy they deserve as excellent storytellers. The comic book medium has also taken great strides in the social realm, gaining credibility as a vessel for the communication and exploration of important social issues. In recent years many weighty topics, including AIDS and racism have found expression through its pages. In fact, comics have so effectively closed the gap between popular entertainment and literature that many critically acclaimed stories, such as Alan Moore’s Watchmen and Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns have found their way onto college...
...though a school board in America had said students were forbidden to read the Declaration of Independence - or "Huckleberry Finn," for that matter. Ms. Gordimer responded with high dudgeon similar to that of the ANC; she said that "if the selectors of fiction are looking for moral lessons against racism, few could be more telling than the situation in this novel...
...press conference on April 12, students claimed the building's destruction was a result of racism, and not financial realities, as the university's administration claimed...
...Census and the sense of freedom it may give some people who see themselves as "multiracial." But to use the term race with any sense of seriousness is a mistake. Unless one sets about deconstructing the use of race as an ideology, one cannot escape participation in the racism that produces such a term. Blackness and whiteness are words that are representative of the history of power relations in this country, and that is one thing the Census count has addressed inadequately. REBECKA RUTLEDGE St Louis...
...reminder that the face of American society has drastically changed, it is still important to ask ourselves whether or not the core values of our society have really changed all that much. Are we really more open minded than we were in the 50s, have we really eradicated racism and sexism, have we actually dealt with the economic polarity of our populace, or have we simply veiled these issues in politically correct jargon...