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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latter half of this decade it has become too apparent that the conservative right is no longer willing to tolerate affirmative action policies as a means of redressing past injustices. This harsh new era has also seen the zeal of the Civil Rights Movement wane in a generation that did not experience the horrors of sanctioned and institutionalized racism...

Author: By Jean GAUVIN Jr., | Title: A Call to Educational Arms | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

This newer form of racism is a much more insidious, much subtler one that would not even make headlines if its steady undercurrent had not pervaded the ethos of lower-class white Americans. The gruesome consequence of this ethos can be seen in two noteworthy instances: Howard Beach and, more recently, Bensonhurst...

Author: By Jean GAUVIN Jr., | Title: A Call to Educational Arms | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

Adopting this new attitude is necessary if ideals are to be radically transformed, so that books, for example, can be seen to be more important than any status gotten from the stereotypical gold chains...

Author: By Jean GAUVIN Jr., | Title: A Call to Educational Arms | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

...amid the cries of outrage, the threats of revenge and half-hearted attempts at racial reconciliation, this summer may also have seen incidents that will cause the current wave of racial tensions to buckle under the weight of its own irrationality...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Healing the Wounds of New York | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

...have never seen that happen in the 22 years that I've been here," Danehy said...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Duehay, Walsh Clash in Commonwealth Day Debate | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

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