Word: treatments
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...lecture and the implications of that phrasing. It also lies in the information he chooses to explore or omit and what I, a Black student, am left to interpret. For example, I am left to question his sensitivity when affirmative action is incompletely defined as "government enforcement of preferential treatment in hiring promotion and college admissions" in a book we had to read for his course that he edited. I am also left to question his sensitivity when I hear that Black men get feelings of inadequacy, beat their wives, and take off. This shows an incomplete and over-simplistic...
Finally, another example that left me questioning his sensitivity involved his treatment of the Jim Crow laws. In lecture, Thernstrom stated that Jim Crow laws were partially established for the protection of Blacks born after 1890 who had not been socialized by subordination, broken into the system, and were therefore more inclined to be uppity and lynched. Subordination is a subjective term. It could be argued that Blacks are still socialized by subordination, meaning that many do not have a positive opinion of themselves as Blacks and still seek to define themselves in white terms. This careless wording and often...
...charge of racial insensitivity that students have leveled against Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom is an unfortunate misinterpretation of his attitude toward race and ethnicity. But on the surface, criticisms of his treatment of racial issues in Historical Studies A-25 seem legitimate...
THERNSTROM may have been thoughtless, careless, or foolish; he was not racially insensitive. Any treatment of racial or ethnic groups is difficult and awkward by nature because by setting a group apart one takes on the role of observer and judge. This role is not assumed by choice but prescribed by the subject matter. Ethnicity is a difficult subject to treat because people are afraid to confront the basic fact that people are different. Some of them are more advantaged than others by whatever accidents of circumstance place their ethnic group in their socioeconomic context. Any class on immigration...
...doctor' s candid account of a mercy killing inflames the profession and renews debate over the care and treatment of the terminally...