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...often, middle-class women of color are either airbrushed from America's literary canvas or painted with hackneyed strokes. While a smattering of books have attempted to redress this problem, among them Jill Nelson's 1993 memoir, Volunteer Slavery, the lives of these women beg for further elaboration. Happily, Nelson's new memoir, Straight, No Chaser (Putnam; 225 pages; $23.95), and Gwendolyn M. Parker's Trespassing (Houghton Mifflin; 209 pages; $23) provide some of the missing detail...
...Texas, meanwhile, a group of minority state senators threatened to cut off funding for the University of Texas if it did not find a way to maintain minority enrollment, and the legislature just passed a bill that attempts to redress the problem by requiring state universities to automatically admit students in the top 10% of their high school classes and allowing the universities to consider "a variety of other factors" in assessing the top 15% to 25%. Some schools, such as the state-owned University of Houston law school, encourage applicants to write about their family background...
...physical conquest of North America and the expansion of technology. Americans could make anything, solve any problem, produce a cataract of inventions. This applied everywhere but the visual arts, where taste was generally conservative. In art, people wanted visible links to the past, to established traditions that would redress the ebullient rawness of their culture. Hence the fierce objections they raised against their own more inventive artists, like Thomas Eakins. Eakins advised his students to "peer deeper into the heart of American life." No American painter worked harder to make the human clay palpable and expose it to scrutiny...
...didn't expect much in the way of government benefits--and they didn't want to be taxed to pay for them. Many workers owned a fishing boat or a vegetable patch that they could work until the yard started hiring again. When people in the Pascagoula area wanted redress against a big company, they tended to look to the courts, whose juries could be quite populist. Southern Mississippi is home to a small but aggressive plaintiff's bar, featured twice over the past year on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and on episodes of 60 Minutes...
...members of the aforementioned categories of persons are discriminated against that the University seeks to protect them. Rather, it is the possibility of such discrimination that prompts Harvard to take the pro-active non-discrimination policy, which is designed to head off problems by providing intra-University methods of redress...