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...Bois was cut out to be a modern intellectual: conflicted, inconsistent and alienated from the conditions and customs of the race he strove to transform. To begin with, he was a Northerner and nearly as white as he was black. There were Dutch and French as well as West African branches on his family tree. He was a child prodigy who became an editor, activist and writer. His best-known book, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), gave new dimension to understanding racism through the concept of double consciousness, which he described as "this sense of always looking...
...Soviet Union openly maintained alliances in, and sent arms to, every corner of the world, from Cuba to Syria to Madagascar to Vietnam. The United States and the Soviet Union were constantly at odds in every sphere of influence. One power tried to propound democracy while the other strove to spread Communism. The Soviets also had their own orbit of similarly modelled republics--an effective buffer to the West...
...Bois was cut out to be a modern intellectual: conflicted, inconsistent and alienated from the conditions and customs of the race he strove to transform. To begin with, he was a Northerner and nearly as white as he was black. There were Dutch and French as well as West African branches on his family tree. He was a child prodigy who became an editor, activist (he was a founder of the N.A.A.C.P.) and writer. His best-known book, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), gave new dimension to understanding racism through the concept of double consciousness, which he described...
...quick tempo, an indication of things to come, was chosen for the first movement. The soloists approached their task in different ways; Perlman played very methodically and correctly while Zukerman, playing with confidence on an instrument that carried beautifully, strove to come out when he had a melodic line...
Many of the new districts, created with the help of computers, looked strange but possessed some geographic integrity. Not so the North Carolina 12th. The meandering serpent represents not just an attempt to concentrate black voters but also a bit of traditional gerrymandering, as the Democratic state legislature strove to avoid siphoning away too many black Democrats from incumbents in adjoining districts. The resulting line segment cleaves so closely to the Interstate that state representative Mickey Michaux, who is black, jokes, "You could drive down I-85 with both doors open and kill everybody in the district." Alive and voting...