Word: segregationism
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Fong’s article got the campus to talk about self-segregation, says Margaret C. Anadu ’03, a student leader at the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. But the conversation didn’t have the right tone. “It was defensive...
Incidents like West’s resignation and the publication of Fong’s article produce an instant debate. Charges of minority self-segregation are usually met by the countercharge that white students and any number of other groups (athletes, musicians, actors, computer science concentrators) also self-segregate. But...
“I’m just sad that most self-segregation is invisible,” Anadu says. “If you see a table full of white students, no one thinks anything.” She is not the only one to opine that putting the...
“The notion of segregation versus friendship is a tricky one,” he says. “People just choose friends based on similar backgrounds, similar likes and dislikes.” Because shared interests and experiences based on race is very common, Gayle says, ?...
Of the 6,650 undergraduates who enrolled at Harvard College at the beginning of the fall 2001 term, 2,970 are white. That’s 45 percent, nearly half the student body. There is obviously no formalized voice for white students—no White Men’s...