Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...point that has recently been driven home to a number of celebrity victims of Web-smear, such as designer Tommy Hilfiger, falsely accused of racism; film star Brad Pitt, who can be seen online--and nude--in unauthorized photos of his buff vacation; and writer Kurt Vonnegut, who found himself depicted, if not unflatteringly, as the author of a commencement speech he never made. "Once a piece of information is out there, it's nearly impossible to obliterate," says Christine Varney, a former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission and a privacy crusader...
Kramer is remembered as Hollywood's pre-eminent social worker. In our frivolous age his signature films about racism (The Defiant Ones), nuclear war (On the Beach), Nazism (Judgment at Nuremberg) and interracial marriage (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) evoke a dutiful do-gooderism: school lessons, church sermons, a stern talk from Dad. In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: A Life in Hollywood (Harcourt Brace; 251 pages; $25), Kramer, 83, gets to make a case for the defense...
...affirmative-action opponent Ward Connerly [NATION, June 23] the Martin Luther King Jr. of our time? King fought against entrenched racism, sought equal rights for all Americans and met vicious opposition. Connerly is fighting an entrenched reverse racism in the name of the same cause and meets vicious opposition as well. But as we stand with Connerly, we shall overcome. THOMAS A. HEPPENHEIMER Fountain Valley, Calif...
...teacher in the U.S. during the early '70s, I realized that achievement through persistence, self-discipline and hard work fosters self-esteem, self-reliance and many other positive qualities. Racism is bred in homes where children are deprived of the motivation that helps them to achieve. It is not racism that is a deterrent to success, but ignorance and personal vices. Minorities need only equal opportunity, education, pay and fair treatment. Like Connerly, I see myself as a color-blind American. Minorities will never be considered equal until they see themselves that way--as humans and Americans, not as minorities...
Alter is president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC), a band of resistance fighters against prevailing academic trends, mainly the ones--deconstruction, cultural studies, gender studies--that examine literature for its complicity in racism, colonialism, sexism and homophobia. Alter's group believes that lit-crit obsessions with race, gender and sexuality reduce imaginative writing to the sum of its crimes against humanity, losing sight of the ambiguous and magical ways in which novels, poems and plays really operate. (To make matters worse, a lot of that criticism is written in indigestible nuggets like "reification" and "de-contextualizing...