Word: segregationism
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Discrimination is only one of these factors. We should not overlook two others: assimilation and intermarriage. Ethnic identities are not permanent essences. They are--as social theorists would say--social constructs that pass away with certain structural factors. Black identity, which did not exist before the economic and political institution...
The African American experience is unique. It goes back over 400 years to the beginning of American slavery and continues through the legacy of segregation and Jim Crow. A distinctive African-American culture was born in this crucible of oppression. Just about all African-Americans today can see themselves as...
For African-Americans, by contrast, the socio-economic legacy of slavery and segregation continues to be passed generationally and manifests itself today in disproportionately high levels of Black inner-city poverty, crime, and illegitimate motherhood.
This acceptance of serious minority self-segregation indicates that people are missing an important point: exclusivity is contagious. Under the current housing arrangements at Cornell, a white student will be more likely to see Blacks as "those people in that dorm," rather than as "the guy down the hall." That...
Seeing people for the "content of their character, rather than the color of their skin," is an ideal in this country, one that arrived late in our history. Like many of our ideals it is a work in progress rather than a fact of life. The incompleteness of the ideal...