Word: tokenisms
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...same token, great changes have taken place in the versions of American history taught to schoolchildren. The past 10 years have brought enormous and hard-won gains in accuracy, proportion and sensitivity in the textbook treatment of American minorities, whether Asian, Native, black or ^ Hispanic. But this is not enough for some extremists, who take the view that only blacks can write the history of slavery, only Indians that of pre- European America, and so forth...
...self- managing teams that design and build entire products. "The typical company has put its foot in the water," says Edward Lawler, a management professor at the University of Southern California business school, who estimates that more than 80% of FORTUNE's top 1,000 firms have at least token employee participation. He adds, however, that few firms have installed such programs on a systematic, company-wide basis...
Admittedly, it is not that The Crimson has never covered AWARE events. There have been some token mentionings of the panel discussions, films, CommUNITY picnics, events and forums which AWARE has provided over the organization's four year history...
...endless (and generally mindless) debate over affirmative action has been about as productive as the PGA drive to make sure that every country club has its token Black...
...women behind the cameras, this burst of activity is a powerful signal. They are finally beginning to achieve something more than token status as directors, and more and more of them are starting to sustain coherent careers in Hollywood. Best of all, the range of their work belies the conventional notion that holds that women can be entrusted only with delicately nuanced little films dealing with intricate personal relationships. Most of them would agree that any director needs, as Coolidge says, "a strong male side and a strong female side." Good directors, she says, demonstrate "a nurturing ability," in order...