Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first such disgrace. Four years ago, the National Museum of American Art produced an exhibition on America's westward expansion that mined every artifact for evidence of white racism and rapacity. Former Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin called the show "perverse, historically inaccurate, destructive." These exhibits are not accidents. They reflect the extent to which the forces of political correctness and historical revisionism, having captured the universities, have now moved out to dominate our museums and other institutions of national culture...
Mura, a third generation Japanese-American, described how racism and the Japanese internment. during World War II affected Asian-Americanidentity at his poetry reading, sponsored by theReischauer Institute and the Asian-AmericanAssociation...
Forcing students to take a course on race relations presumes that prejudice can be fought with rationality. But is racism itself rational? Are racist views based on fact and supported by evidence? Clearly they are not. Attempting to fight an irrational reaction such as racism with responses anchored in reason can have limited success at best...
...after years and years of being inculcated with prejudice. Racist messages are often communicated to people through their families, their communities or even society as a whole. One semester-long course, or even two or three such courses, will not succeed in erasing or even making a dent in racism...
...course the University must still try to fight prejudice and discrimination. The difficulty of combatting racism should not be an excuse for inaction. But inaction is certainly preferable to enacting a flawed proposal in order to make a symbolic statement...