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...Women are turned off by politics and news framed as food-fights by the media,” she said. In this election cycle, Goodman added, voters often feel forced to choose between different facets of their identities when aligning with either of the “non-traditional?? candidates for the Democratic nomination. Goodman said, for example, that when polled, black women feel that they have to choose between being black and being female. Goodman said that whereas African Americans have overwhelmingly supported Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, older white women have formed...
...Gideon Lester, Brustein founded the theater with a “colorblind” philosophy of giving the best actor the best part regardless of his or her race. While diversity in casting is, Lester says, an institutionalized principle at the ART, he questions whether “non-traditional?? casting, in which minority actors fill traditionally white roles, is particularly effective anymore. “At a time when racial politics were very much at the forefront of the political agenda, it made a great deal of sense to provoke audiences into thinking about plays...
With his feathers and war paint, the chief’s minstrel show encourages the childish perception of Native Americans as uncivilized, reducing them to a ridiculous archetype. His performance also featured a “traditional?? dance that was actually exaggerated for the crowd’s benefit. When Native American ways are embellished or altered to entertain the masses, the descriptor “Jim Crow” leaps to mind sooner than “honor...
...must be sure to keep it in the context of the overall purpose of a general education: to give students the tools for thinking seriously about what they should aspire to in attempting to live the best life possible for them. If we do this we will retain the traditional??and I believe admirable—idea that general education should be devoted primarily to the development of the individual’s character, while dispensing with the traditional??but no longer convincing—assumption that there is a single appropriate way to live...
...Extension School serves a critical purpose: It offers everybody the opportunity for advanced study at Harvard, regardless of prior Harvard affiliation. In this way, the school enables a broad swath of people who don’t fit into a “traditional?? degree pattern—from those who want to finish their undergraduate degree later in life to those who simply want to take a course for fun—to fulfill their educational goals. Because the Extension School’s target audience includes the general public just as much as currently enrolled extension...