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Italy was caught completely unprepared for such a wave of immigration, and suffered a relapse of nationalism, racism and intolerance according to DiMaio...
...more troubling aspect of "As an X, I feel Y" comments is that they reveal a narrow understanding of selfhood. Surely, our academic viewpoints are informed by a variety of sources, including familial and cultural history, encounters with racism or sexism, or tutelage of particular professors. But to limit our analytic interpretations to those that are derived from narrow aspects of our selves poses two dangers. First, it causes us to stop short of our full academic potential. More importantly, it reinforces stereotypes which dictate that members of particular groups are characterized by uniformity of experience and viewpoint...
...Greaseman says (at least he told Ted Koppel so) that he doesn't know from where in the depths of his soul this awful comment came; he says he doesn't know if deep down there is a kernel of racism in him that he needs to find and deal with. At Mr. Koppel's prodding, Greaseman even said he would seek counseling (a suggestion he said basketball coach John Thompson made...
...Nicholson, a member who is white, recalls, "You wouldn't have believed how bad it was. The blacks were so angry, and the whites didn't know what to do. But we've come a long way since then." "It's changed people," says Wade. "There is still subtle racism here. When a white person and a black person enter a store at the same time, usually the white person is served first. That sort of stuff goes on." But, she says, "Jasper is going to be much better because of what happened...
...have to keep fighting the same debilitating battles over and over. Every time an outrage like the Diallo shooting occurs, many whites treat it like a tragic exception in an otherwise fair and just system, rather than as a symptom of chronic racial injustice. Raise a fuss about continuing racism and you're accused of exaggerating or imagining things...