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...same ethnic backgrounds group together and don’t really mix as much as you’d think,” said HPU Chairman Shankar G. Ramaswamy ’11. Aptly, last night’s discussion centered around the issues of “self-segregation?? among ethnic groups on Harvard’s campus. The group quickly agreed that the “dining hall” phenomenon—or the persistence of clusters of white, black or Asian students all eating and socializing separately—was indeed a problem that...
...19th-century thinking and the linguistic environment that posits blacks as unqualified,” Wilson said.Brustein shot back immediately. In a piece called “Subsidized Separatism,” he referred to Wilson’s rhetoric as “the language of self-segregation?? and pleaded with “minority playwrights to acknowledge, without any loss of racial consciousness, that they belong, as artists, to the same human family as everyone else.”In addition to being a critic, Brustein is also the founder of the American Repertory Theater...
Instead of drawing boundary lines to determine the student bodies of each of Cambridge's 12 primary schools—a process that many officials say would be too divisive and could lead to de facto segregation??the district allocates students using a plan, known as controlled-choice, that seeks to ensure that the schools are socioeconomically balanced...
...many ways, Harvard’s campus provides a perfect venue for working to combat the “self-segregation?? endemic to predominantly white colleges. One campus organization that works directly against isolating impulses is the Harvard Foundation. In 1981, then-University President Derek C. Bok and the deans of the College created the Foundation to “improve relations among racial and ethnic groups within the University and to enhance the quality of our common life,” according to the group’s mission statement. The Foundation, which organizes campus staples such...
...predominant question is one of principle: is “self-segregation?? wrong? Is it harmful? Periodically, Harvard students have called for an end to the self-segregation that ethnic groups supposedly perpetuate. In a 2005 Crimson column Jason L. Lurie ’05 wrote, “Unlike the segregation that was forced on African-Americans in the South before the 1960s, self-segregation is instituted voluntarily by the members of the affected group. It is facilitated here at Harvard by College-endorsed student organizations which serve as central locations at which to meet other members...