Word: separatist
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Most black students do not challenge integration as an appropriate goal for a national university such as Harvard, and only a few are presently urging a more separatist structure, such as a dormitory solely for blacks. Several black freshman have expressed a desire for "an elective all black floor" in one of the Yard dormitories, and other students have recommended that Harvard investigate "the feasibility of a co-educational co-operative dorm" for black students, also elective...
FARMER constantly uses the phrase "black community" in conversation. Though not a separatist he believes strongly in what he calls "ethnic entities." To Farmer the "black community" always acts in the singular, not the plural. It stands united against white America; on that much he agrees with Innis. However, the whites are not united in the same way against black America. Here he parts company with Innis and sees a chance for the "black community" to wield great power in a pluralist society...
...civil rights movement welcomed white allies and could not have existed without them. What has now become the black revolution?separatist, militant and proud?has no use for the white man, especially the white man who is also a Jew. Belsen and Dachau are scars upon the Jewish memory; black nationalists deride them as evidence of Jewish submission. Says Psychologist Nathan Caplan of the University of Michigan : "The raw edge of the new anti-Semitism is not exploitation by Jewish merchants. Instead, it is almost an unwillingness to act pacifically like the Jews in Germany. Maybe they feel that...
...days of ancient Rome, anyone who tried to subjugate the people of Euzkadi, or Basque Land, has quickly learned one fact about them: the Basques want to govern themselves. Finally brought under Spanish and French domination in the 19th century, the Basques have maintained one of the most virulent separatist traditions in Europe. Of late, it has exploded into a campaign of deadly terrorism...
...calls a "patchwork of local negotiations" in which warring Communists and non-Communists in a small area would come to terms, make their own local truces and work out their own modus vivendi for governing their localities. Viet Nam is in fact less a nation than an assembly of separatist, often fiercely competitive sects and peoples, such as the Hoa Hao, the Cao Dai, the Montagnards and, of course, the Catholics and Buddhists. Granting such subsocieties home rule would strengthen local government and security and also give them a larger stake in supporting a central government tolerant of their autonomy...