Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team, the trio leads discussion groups on sensitive topics such as racism, sexism and classism. As individuals, they exist to provide an ear and a shoulder to first-years struggling with personal problems...
...book marshals data to debunk both affirmative-action laws and the contention that persistent racism makes them necessary. Some of its points are compelling. To wit: Whose fault is it, and how much have we gained from preferences, when both poor blacks and blacks whose parents make $70,000 score behind poor whites on Scholastic Assessment Tests...
...racism that has left black men unable to provide for their families and unattractive for marriage, how does one account for the fact that 40 years ago, marriage rates and legitimate births were double what they...
...agree with them. What contribution does this make? Doesn't it simply equip partisans with juicy quotations to score points?" And the book begs the question: If progress really is so great, why don't blacks believe it? Even those blacks who are high achievers are bitter about the racism they face (as witnesses another compelling book, Ellis Cose's The Rage of a Privileged Class, published in 1994). A recent poll for the New Yorker found that 65% of blacks say they have never been denied a job or promotion because of race--yet even a greater percentage believe...
...some investigative reporting. And if God speaks directly to the Mormon leaders, why did it take him until 1978, two decades after the start of the civil rights movement and 115 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, to reveal to his chosen people what most others already knew--that racism is wrong? LARS OPLAND Palmer, Alaska...