Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Secondly, some of these groups tend to be just a little too political. Response, for instance, features grabbers with heavy socio-political overtones such as "Do I call it racism or sexual harassment?" Is this counseling or merely advice on which charge to bring the male-chauvinist-oppressor next door before the Ad Board...
...cultural nationalism, the Black Arts writers imagined themselves as the artistic wing of the Black Power movement. Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal and Sonia Sanchez viewed black art as a matter less of aesthetics than of protest; its function was to serve the political liberation of black people from white racism. Erected on a shifting foundation of revolutionary politics, this "renaissance" was the most short-lived of all. By 1975, with the Black Arts Movement dead, black culture seemed to be undergoing a profound identity crisis...
...some ways it is a fissure that runs through much black art of this century. One school of representation has focused on man as the subject of large, impersonal forces -- racism, sexism, poverty. The other has dwelt on a transcendent self in which fulfillment is achieved despite these forces. Black art today represents an uncanny convergence of the two schools, and so replicates the class tensions within a black America that sees itself as both an object of a baneful history and the author of its own history. The buppie and the B-boy represent two salient cultural styles that...
...this and other encounters with transition in the defunct empire, Kapuscinski gets to the irrational heart of nationalism, racism and religious fundamentalism. In Imperium, those who know their history can't wait to repeat...
Taking her publication as but one example, Song goes on to argue that racism is just everywhere--sort of like those ads for Calvin Klein underwear. She claims that whether we acknowledge it or not, we're "thinking racially" when we carry out such innocent tasks as house-hunting or choosing a radio station. We can only imagine the extension of this argument: "Whether we recognize it or not--when we balance our checkbooks, when we vacuum our bedroom, when we choose the brown rice pancakes over the baked potato bar we are thinking racially...