Word: ruralism
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...minimal legal acknowledgement of the humanity of African-Americans was never enforced. Their lives were separate but never equal, from the “colored” hospital wards where they were born to the racially-segregated graveyards where they were buried. As a confused six year-old in rural Arkansas, I once asked my Sunday school teacher if God had a “colored” section in heaven...
...Unfortunately for the BJP, the refracted glow of the high-tech palaces of Bangalore and Hyderabad never reached the rural villages and urban slums where 80 percent of the population continues to live in grinding poverty. The rewards of globalization and India's emergence as a high-tech powerhouse have been enjoyed only by a tiny percentage of Indians. As a Goldman Sachs report recently noted, India is home to one third of the world's software engineers and one quarter of its undernourished population. And for the impoverished majority, the message of a "Shining India" rang hollow, at best...
...similar economic program as the BJP had been. Commitment to economic liberalization may put a strain on relations with the socialist parties, suggesting that Gandhi's party may find its room for maneuver somewhat limited by the competing claims of coalition allies and international markets. And if discontent over rural poverty had brought down the BJP, it could do the same to their successors...
...turning a blind eye to peasants contracting HIV by selling their blood, which was collected with tainted equipment. When the scandal was exposed four years ago, Li may have realized that his earlier decision to sign off on a $24 million buddha when many of the province's rural inhabitants were so poor they resorted to selling their own blood might make for bad press. And as the country's propaganda chief he had the power to order a nationwide news blackout. Today, the only real movement in and out of the shuttered complex is that of the resident abbot...
...communities among the Brown cases, this rural, Black Belt county in Virginia may have suffered the deepest scars--but not from bombs, cross burnings or any of the other violence desegregation sparked in much of the rest of the South. While today educators call its schools a model of integration, in 1959, Prince Edward County locked its schoolhouses for five long years rather than comply with Brown. "It turned our lives completely around," says Rita Moseley, a slender, soft-spoken school secretary and grandmother who was 12 the year the schools closed. "I will always wonder what I would have...