Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ambiguities in his "message"--that American business should not cry foul every time it loses in a trade war and must end expectations of being coddled after decades of dominance. But a long line of critics, including Labor Secretary Robert Reich, saw only paranoid vendettas and tinges of racism...
...black men have been invisible in America, as Ralph Ellison argued, black women have been inaudible. Doubly oppressed by racism and sexism, they have often gone unheard as male civil rights leaders did the talking for their race and white feminists did the talking for their sex. In recent years a growing chorus of black female writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker has begun to direct a passionate blast against male chauvinists on both sides of the color line. But there has seldom been an indictment of the self-absorption and self-delusion of the corporate male, both white...
THEATER Was it worth making Sunset Boulevard into a musical? CINEMA The creator of Boys N the Hood flops this time. TELEVISION Chantilly Lace is sisterhood in action (men, beware). MUSIC Tony! Toni! Tone! updates sweet '60s soul. BOOKS A memoir of sexism and racism at the Washington Post. Honor Among Thieves is a plodding (non)thriller...
...likes gerrymandering, even in this day and age. But some see it as a medicine made necessary by generations of institutional racism. If it were eliminated, what would replace it? Perhaps nothing would work just fine, as the conservatives hope. Perhaps some experimentation is in order involving the election of blacks to at-large seats through systems of "cumulative" or "limited" voting. Yet the political theory is knotty, and the surrounding sensitivities raw: it was grapplings along precisely these lines that a month ago crippled Guinier's public career...
...other hands, Ganesh might seem melodramatic. The more outspoken woman, played with aggressive vulnerability by Zoe Caldwell, is trying to reconcile herself to three facts: her favorite child grew up to be gay; he was murdered by gay-bashers; and the assailants were black, which has triggered a racism she alternately vents and recoils from. Her companion, seemingly prim, is given a deeply pragmatic and adaptive grasp of life by Frances Sternhagen in a performance as fine as any in her long career. This woman also lost a child, her firstborn, in an accident. For decades she has told...