Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until recently, however, neither director had much visibility outside film- festival circles. Burnett, who supported his family and his film projects with foundation grants and odd jobs, couldn't even find a commercial distributor for his work. Now both are beginning to shake off the hothouse stigma. Lane, 37, is making his big-budget debut in August with True Identity, a $16 million comedy about a black man forced to pass for white in order to evade Mafia hit men. Although he had to ask for changes that would make the movie less offensive to blacks, Lane admits...
Their argument was, of course, that the identities of the candidates had to be kept secret to protect their reputations at their home institutions--from both the humiliation of rejection and the stigma of an employee seriously considering leaving...
...raging debates over PC and multiculturalism have placed a certain stigma against those who would deem others "sexist," but Harvard's nine all-made final clubs are worse than sexist. They're misogynist. They are an instrument of control, a self-segregating space where men can keep women out or bus them in whenever they want...
Thernstrom says that he was labeled a racist because his use of historical narratives introduced viewpoints that ran counter to the liberal consensus. Thernstrom--who had been reading from slave-owners' journals--says that his personal defense of his teaching practices can never dispel the stigma of having been called a racist...
...perfect tool. Like Steele, they decry the widespread view among whites that virtually all blacks who are hired, promoted or gain admission to elite colleges are less qualified than their white counterparts. "There have been casualties -- minority kids who are depressed or feeling incompetent because of the stigma," says sociologist Troy Duster of the University of California, Berkeley. Duster tells of a black student who complained to him, "I feel like I have AFFIRMATIVE ACTION stamped on my forehead...