Word: segregationism
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But that’s the future, and while the future has come to California, it hasn’t yet made it to Harvard. The recent defense of self-segregation at Harvard has centered on minority-ness. The argument is either 1) I didn’t have any...
A third, and I believe more valid, defense of self-segregation among minority groups actually has nothing to do with being a minority.
Ending self-segregation is not as simple as putting people of different backgrounds into the same classroom. Even if we were broken down into randomized blocking groups of one, self-segregation would still happen at Harvard. You can’t legislate away the comfort of being with like-minded...
No one person or group bears the responsibility for self-segregation. Rather the imperative to challenge our segregationist tendencies rests on us as individuals, uneasily but equally.
The Harvard Civil Rights Project released a study of the 2000 census data this week concluding that segregation in both urban and suburban communities still persists, despite the nation's increasing ethnic diversity