Word: segregationism
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One of the dangers that the staff does not adequately confront is self-segregation. At Cornell, the administration has endorsed self-segregation by dedicating dormitories specifically for Black, Hispanic and, soon, homosexual students. Cornell believes that these conditions will make students more comfortable, but instead it has created a set...
Rumors spread quickly last week that the Tutsi-dominated army was about to attack Kamenge and seven major refugee camps that provide shelter to 200,000 Hutu from Rwanda. Tutsi paramilitary groups may have spread the rumors themselves to help speed their segregation plan. Everyone in Burundi is still in...
(B) SEGREGATION
Jackie Robinson was the athlete who broke American professional sports' color barrier, and his dignity crystallized the injustice of segregation. Curt Flood's 1969 challenge of the reserve clause (under which the team reserves the sole right to negotiate with a player for the following year(s)), although ultimately unsuccessful...
Although relations are friendly, residents saysome degree of self-segregation exists. Culturaldifferences and language barriers can sometimeshamper social interaction, they add.