Word: symbolic
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More likely, the error that the article makes is an unconscious assumption that the norm among the Confederacy was whiteness, so a "Southerner" is a "white Southerner." This is the same error that justifies treating the Confederate flag as a "regional symbol...
RYUTARO HASHIMOTO, WHO BECAME Japan's Prime Minister last Thursday, is not the typical Japanese politician. With his good looks, sideburns and slicked-back hair, he is a sex symbol. He once greeted U.S. trade negotiators wearing a green leather suit. And in a culture in which the supreme recreational passion is golf, Hashimoto likes scaling mountains (he was part of two Everest expeditions) and has practiced kendo, a Japanese style of fencing, on the roof of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry headquarters in downtown Tokyo...
...reductive and repetitive as a bad teacher's syllabus. And kids will learn things from Mr. Holland: the connection between Bach's Minuet in G Major and the '60s hit Lover's Concerto, how a white man can teach natural rhythm to a black athlete, the sign-language symbol for asshole. But mostly they will learn that films avoid the problems they pretend to confront. This one is a 2-hr. 20-min. homecoming rally for a musical Mr. Chips...
...hold to be self-evident are perhaps evident only to some: justice has a different meaning for the minority motorist pulled over for speeding or for no reason at all. Cochran skillfully managed to make O.J. Simpson, with his white wife and his country-club friends, the unlikely symbol of this ugly racial truth--and so exploited the media frenzy of a celebrity case to deliver a message too often ignored by white America. Never mind that many Americans, white and black, thought it was the right message, wrong trial...
...black writers, including bell hooks, Cornel West and Derrick Bell, who are forging what might be called a new canon of inclusion. While celebrating black identity, Dyson seeks connections with other minority groups, such as feminists, gays and Latinos. The O.J. Simpson trial was seen by many as a symbol of racial strife; Dyson sees some hope. "Its major players are a virtual rainbow of color, gender, ethnicity, and class," he says. "Judge Lance Ito is Asian-American. Johnnie Cochran is African-American. Marcia Clark is a white woman. And Robert Shapiro, like Clark, is Jewish. A judicial landmark...