Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...workers, have seen an increasingly globalized, high technology economy, much facilitated by laissez-faire social policy, drive down their wages and standard of living. Nonetheless, research involving carefully designed audits (i.e., matched pairs of job applicants), as well as systematic surveys and in-depth interviews of low-skill employers speak loudly on the subject of race: direct racial bias against African-Americans exists today. Continued race bias in the labor market and residential segregation help account for why a far larger fraction of the black poor as compared to the white poor, have incomes at 50 percent or less...
...road to healing. The nation needs to look at some cold, unpleasant truths about its past, but also about its present circumstances if we are to have a twenty-first century free of racism. In order for that to happen, however, President Clinton and his advisers will have to speak candidly on a subject where the most politically palatable or ideologically safe ideas usually trump even the most obvious social facts. Noble intentions and great initiatives notwithstanding, I fear that the depth of the mendacity of the dominant discourse on race may yet preclude this from happening...
...political] voice won't be heard on campusbecause we're trying to speak through theCaribbean itself," Simpson said...
...think the charges speak for themselves," he said...
...diverse backgrounds, a reinvigorated effort to bring ethnic studies courses to the FAS curriculum, a savvy ability to use the tools of information technology to inform the oblivious, and, yes, a vocal and activist Undergraduate Council willing to use its Harvard moniker as a bully pulpit on which to speak up for progressive causes, whether it be the plight of migrant farm laborers or Harvard's egregious and covert land acquistions in the working-class community of Allston...