Word: segregationism
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While panelist Professor Cornel R. West '74 agreed that Harvard still has much progress to make in promoting integration and diversity on campus, he said in the 28 years that have elapsed since his undergraduate days at Harvard, the University has made huge strides in combatting racism and segregation.
Panelists acknowledged the presence of varyingdegrees of segregation in the Harvard community,some viewing it as a negative aspect of campuslife and others finding a certain level of comfortin being with their own ethnic group.
"There's a lot of segregation on campus," saidMark A. Price '99, president of the Black Men'sForum and former vice president of the council."It's a very natural thing for people to formgroups with people they have familiarity with."
These are the fundamental structural disparities that 300 years of racism created. They constitute an enormous gulf in the quality of life experience that blacks and whites are likely to enjoy. In addition, the black middle class remains heavily residentially segregated by race, typically living in or on the periphery...
Third, poor and working class African-Americans face barriers to opportunity based in both class and race. All workers irrespective of race, especially low-skill workers, have seen an increasingly globalized, high technology economy, much facilitated by laissez-faire social policy, drive down their wages and standard of living. Nonetheless...