Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Crimson did in fact inspire the advocate in Halberstam, and after graduation he left the sheltered environment of Cambridge to take a job with the West Point, Mississippi Daily Times Leader, the smallest daily in the state. Halberstam thought the 1954 Supreme Court ruling against segregation would bring profound...
Slums. Because the outcasts look exactly like their countrymen, an American anthropologist once called them Japan's invisible race. The only way to identify them is by their birthplace or current address, both of which are usually in one of the nation's 5,000 buraku -hamlets or...
Salvation. Japan's booming economy has provided jobs for many buraku-min, but the group has made few social gains. Young Japanese are, in fact, less prejudiced than their elders, and there are more mixed marriages than formerly. But few religious or intellectual leaders are strongly behind integration-partly...
Among other things, the new laws 1) forbid Rhodesian blacks to travel outside the country unless each journey is approved by a white civil servant, 2) force all Africans over age 16 to carry an identity pass at all times, on pain of a $140 fine and six months in...
The article implied that this segregation was caused by a false view of the world among the black students and by their lack of preparedness for academic life. Most of the blacks here are not poor, and few are unprepared for college, but still the majority practices some kind of...