Word: segregationism
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The gay bar is usually a sexual marketplace. Though most bars are classless?a college professor may walk out arm in arm with a welder?the trend in big cities is toward variety and segregation. There are bars for writers, artists, blacks, collegians, businessmen, middle-class women, "drag queens," transsexuals...
Compulsory segregation by sex is banned in nearly all classes and extracurricular activities. (Among the exceptions: Boy and Girl Scout programs, sex-education classes and phys.-ed. classes featuring contact sports.) Pregnant girls cannot be excluded from class because of their condition. Sexual discrimination is barred in scholarship aid and...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was a more successful venture, but DuBois's own relationship with the organization was tempestuous. He served as the editor of Crisis, NAACP's official publication until 1933, when he found that his program for "Negro self-sufficiency" and limited segregation...
A student tends to be with his classmates in many ways: on Freshman teams, in the less advanced courses, etc. The desirable objective is to give him the opportunity to mix with others also. The justly touted broadening effect of a Harvard education is in large part attributable to exposure...
In the remote past (when I was a Freshman), before TV and other advanced communications, Freshmen as a group were often extremely naive, narrow and immature. Segregation gave misery its desired company in the adjustment process. Doubtless this is still a bit true, but most certainly it has diminished, so...