Word: segregationism
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Unfortunately, randomization is not a comprehensive solution to the problem of self-segregation. Instead, randomization will only serve to weaken house life and anger students without creating an integrated campus.
Not at all. The goal of racial and social integration remains important, but altering the Housing lottery is not the way to achieve it. Trying to solve the problem of self-segregation by randomizing the Housing lottery is much like performing open-heart surgery with an axe. The instrument is...
Unfortunately, both the six-house plan and full randomization suffer from the same misconception. both rest on the belief that the distribution of blocking groups is the cause of racial and social segregation. But it is not the lottery that is at fault; it is the blocking groups themselves.
The main concept behind the housing debate is essentially that of segregation. As a university, Harvard is torn between the dual responsibilities of preparing its students for the real world, and of exposing them to new and different aspects of life which hopefully will allow them to grow and to...
Life for blacks in the South during the Depression was scarcely better than it had been during slavery. Sharecropping farmers were paid according to the amount of cotton they picked. But the totting up was done by agents of the plantation owner, and cheating was common. Most blacks could not...