Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jones recalls one incident from his undergraduate days he thinks was an example of racism. While waiting in line at the Union one day, a server singled Jones out of a rowdy, mostly white line of students and said accusingly, "What is wrong with...
...Black undergraduates interviewed last week said they have not experienced overt incidents of racism. Still, some say racism persists...
...sanction institutional bigotry. What is needed is a dramatic effort to overhaul attitudes. The end of anti-gay intolerance will not come with an executive order from the president, nor will it result from Senate panel hearings. It will occur only over a long period of time, just as racism is still being slowly eradicated from our social institutions...
...quoted as saying in A TASTE OF POWER: A BLACK WOMAN'S STORY (Pantheon; $25). By that standard, author Elaine Brown is a genuine radical. She tells an absorbing story of real struggle: how she became the leader of the Black Panther Party, how she and the party battled racism, and how she fought sexism within the group. Her prose is unpretentious and involving. She makes the political personal by recounting her affair with Huey Newton, founder of the Panthers. Newton is revealed as a difficult man, sometimes violent, sometimes vulnerable, always brilliant. In the end, Brown discovers, love...
...there was too much going on in M. Butterfly I remember someone saying Hwang never takes on one subject when he can take on six. Essentially, I think this play deals with fewer issues than Butterfly. Butterfly attempts to compose a theory of the other which takes into account racism, sexism, imperialism--and tries to create a system in which all these factors work together. This play is basically about race, about whether race is real or mythological, whether it's a construct that has any usefulness...