Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...liked the Whitney Biennial, you may like "Aperto 93." Some of its 13 curators, like the American Jeffrey Deitch, are in fact dealers -- a further development of Postmodernist art ethics. Its title, "Emergency," signals that, like the Whitney fiasco, it will "address the issues" of sexism, racism, environmental decay, the drainage of psychosocial space from modern life, the hegemony of mass media and so forth...
...took on racism, we took on drugs...we will do the same, my friends, with the very difficult issue of homosexuals in the military," Powell said, adding that the debate centers around the opposing interests of gays and lesbians who wish to serve openly and "concerns with respect to the cohesion of the military and the right to privacy...
...Michigan Law Review piece, Guinier assails current interpretations of the Voting Rights Act and proposes changes. Essentially she contends that what blacks and Hispanics have achieved under the act is tokenism. Although they are being elected in greater numbers, she says, they remain isolated by legislative racism. A "hostile permanent majority" in some places has been unwilling to give minorities in legislatures a fair share of power...
...newspaper the Daily Pennsylvanian, maintains that in matters of free speech Hackney "very much stands up for complaints from the left but not from the right." In April almost all 14,000 copies of the Daily Pennsylvanian were taken and destroyed by black students protesting "blatant . . . perpetuation of institutional racism" by the newspaper -- specifically the views of a right-wing columnist -- and the university at large. The paper declared it was "betrayed" by Hackney's reaction, a bland statement that "two important university values, diversity and open expression, seem to be in conflict...
...Black applicants to the Class of 1997, Harvard's image as an intolerant and racist institution was based only on hearsay until they made their first visit to Cambridge. Within the period of their brief stays, however, both experienced their first personal encounters with racism, incidents that tainted their first impressions of Harvard...