Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brokaw reminded students that technological advancements do little to solve the problem of racism in this country...
Gone are the public complaints of racism against HUPD officers, which plagued the force under Johnson...
...what extent American universities should support ethnic studies. The debate is confounded by the highly complex and somewhat abstract themes that comprise the issue. Individuals on both sides tend to oversimplify and polemicize, labeling ethnic studies advocates as screaming radical minorities and their opponents as perpetuators of white male racism...
...second tenet which disturbs us. What the AAC seems to be saying here is that racism is so firmly built into the system that non-white minorities cannot be truly empowered in America without a paradigm shift. This shift would take us away from an emphasis on universal truths to a view of knowledge as simply a conglomeration of different perspectives. This is problematic for a number of reasons...
...second problem is that, as the AAC describes it, this paradigm shift will come about mostly (though not entirely) through the study of non-white ethnic groups. This seems to imply that racism in America against non-whites is somehow inherently different from the prejudice faced by white ethnicities throughout this nation's history. This is not necessarily true--anyone who studies the problems of, say, the immigrant Irish and Jews at the turn of the century will realize that these groups faced discrimination that was much stronger and more destructive than that leveled against, say, Asians and Hispanics today...