Word: stigmas
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...effects of the dearth of women and minority professors at the Law School are anything but trivial. It denies all students the benefits of learning from a faculty with a wide range of perspectives and knowledge. And the lack of role models for women and minority students perpetuates a stigma of inferiority...
...irony that achievement should have acquired such a stigma within the black community. Hard work, scholarship and respect for family values have long been a cornerstone of black identity. In the years before the Civil War, many black slaves risked their lives learning how to read. In 1867, just four years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans founded Morehouse and Howard universities. According to the Bureau of the Census, between Reconstruction and 1910, the literacy rate among Southern blacks climbed from 20% to 70%. "There has always been a strong pressure toward educational achievement," says Mae Kendall, director of elementary...
Dawn Euton had cancer a long time ago -- 27 years ago, to be exact. As a four-year-old she was treated for Wilms' tumor, a malignancy of the kidney. Though the disease never returned, the fear and stigma have not gone away. In high school her classmates acted as if they were scared to be near her. She was rejected every time she applied for medical insurance -- even to cover the cost of bearing a child. And vivid memories of the childhood terror still flood back whenever she goes for a checkup and sees the same woman...
Most cancer survivors strike the same general themes: anxiety, ostracism, lost relationships, trouble at work and difficulty in getting adequate health insurance. The stigma long attached to cancer is only slightly diminished in the age of AIDS. Cancer is to the 20th century what tuberculosis was to the 19th, wrote Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor. In the popular imagination, it is not just another disease but the embodiment of evil. In some European countries, it was a common practice for doctors to lie to their cancer patients. Physicians would give the diagnosis to the family...
...stigma of this image has lessened in recent years, the Republicans have grown to "two or three times larger than the [Harvard- Radcliffe] Democrats," says Michael...