Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world, where race is recognized as a mythic construction and an obstruction to human relationship. The progression from reality to fantasy is both the strongest and weakest point of the play. That the play starts as realistic political narrative and ends up as utopian romance signals the unlikelihood of racism disappearing anytime soon and the necessity for optimism; it also allows for wonderful comic twists as the play ascends into farce in the second...
...farce, borders dangerously on didacticism. Not only is the art better without the straight political messages, the politics are also more interesting. At his best, Hwang lets his characters embody race relations in America today: A white supremacist declares deadpan, "I consider myself on the cutting edge of racism"; a white actor declares empathetically, "I know what it's like to hate all white men," to which a bigoted professor responds, "What else does it take to be part of a minority group today...
...more than an hour, the rap star addressed an overflow audience of more than 300 people, predominantly Law School students, on topics ranging from his past to his views on sex, violence, and racism...
Needless to say, gays and lesbians have an enormous investment in improving race relations, not only because racism divides our community, but because much of the prejudices that disempower people of color also serve to repress gays, particularly gay men and women of color...
...thought that Blacks taking a week off to kill whites would cure racism on a global front, I would have suggested it." Souljah said, "but I know better than that...