Word: social
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PROFESSOR of Education and Social Structure Nathan Glazer uttered these frank words yesterday. Speaking at an Asian-American Association forum, the distinguished academic criticized the extension of affirmative action guidelines to minorities other than Black Americans in general, and to Asian-Americans in particular...
...base, Glazer's focus on the Black experience rightly recalls more than 370 years of American history in which the brunt of racist hate and violence fell upon Black Americans. Bigotry and economic, cultural and social segregation still strike Blacks and Black communities with arguably the greatest severity of any of the American minorities; there can be no contesting that Black-white equality belongs at the top of priorities for all citizens...
Speaking at a forum entitled "Are We Minorities?", sponsored by the Harvard/Radcliffe Asian-American Association (AAA), Professor of Education and Social Structure Nathan Glazer said that programs set up in the 1960s as an aid to Blacks should not apply to other minority groups...
Such broad categorization ignores a "bipolar" distribution of income and status among nationalities and language groups classified as "Asian-Americans," as well as between those of different education levels, Kiang said. Generalizations about Asian-American professional success can also obscure political or social barriers, he said...
...People know you as a sort of religious social worker. Do they understand the spiritual basis of your work...