Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TODAY'S students--Black, white, Asian and Hispanic--are tomorrow's social and political shakers-and-movers. They must shoulder societal and institutional burdens far more intricate in tenacity and complexity than any previous generation of American students ever encountered. Rev. Jesse Jackson, during his visit to the Boston area last month, reflected on the importance of today's students to the resolution of tomorrow's ills when he observed that...
Thus Black Greeks on both white and Black campuses around the country spend much more time, and thousands-on-thousands of their bourgeois and working-class parents' hard-won income, on the annual "cakewalk"-type dance competition and festival, in addition to the usual social and partying events. They spend nowhere near equivalent time, energy and resources mounting mechanisms to confront the long-haul task of rolling back the myriad social pathologies among sections of the Black poor such as massive Black-on-Black crime, abysmal education performance and runaway teenage motherhood and fatherhood. So there is no legitimate political...
While our now defunct Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs--published for several years--shared Outlook's interest in the many-sided issues of ethnic selfidentity, it extended its focus much farther afield, to national political and social concerns facing Afro-Americans. I hope further editions of Outlook do likewise. I did sense a tendency in the current Outlook to over-indulge selfidentity concerns--a tendency that leads ultimately to an intellectually stultifying narcissism...
...There is fear that women who play men's games will grow indistinguishable from male power seekers, that women who win entry and learn how to survive in male institutions will not care about social change to benefit other women or to transform the society's priorities," Mandel said...
...junior professors the issue is where to find more time for scholarship. If the University grants them an additional semester of paid leave time--they currently get one semester--many say that could make the difference for completing the second book, which often determines tenure in the humanities and social sciences...