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...While we understand that everyone is entitled to their opinion, we and many members of our community were quite offended by the language used in the article." she said. "We thought that the conclusions were reached in a misinformed manner, and that the language was distasteful and inflammatory...

Author: By Keren E. Rohe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Battle Royale: Ethnic Studies vs. The Salient | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...been my official ideology for a long time that there are no wrong interpretations. As artists, we put a lot in store in our own intentions. We intend our works to mean some things, and that’s what we want the viewer to get and understand. What an artwork means broadly in society as a particular kind of cultural object is first of all overwhelmingly defined by the fact that the artwork exists and is recognized as being a work...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spotlight: Andrea Fraser | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...going to Heaven, Huck quips that he is glad he won’t go to Heaven “because I wanted [Tom Sawyer] and me to be together.” Twain extends Huck’s naiveté even further when Huck fails to understand that Tom’s fantasy games are not real. In one scene Huck believes that a traveling troupe of invisible Arabs with two hundred elephants was conjured by a genie. It is only after the incident that Huck reconsiders his gullibility. He “thought all this over...

Author: By Theodore J. Gioia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Second Look at Comedy in Twain | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...entire story to convince a ferryman to lead a rescue party to save several people trapped in a sinking riverboat. Yet later, Huck is not able to figure out that the criminals called The Duke and The King are not real royalty. Huck’s capacity to understand and speak the truth seems to change in every scene...

Author: By Theodore J. Gioia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Second Look at Comedy in Twain | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

While Kumar, like Falcón, applauds the Census Bureau for the 2010 form's prominent Hispanic-origins feature, she feels the feds still fail to understand "how layered the Latino self-identity is" beyond just language. North Americans call Oct. 12 Columbus Day, but Latin Americans call it Dia de la Raza - Day of the Race - a recognition that 1492 began a commingling of primarily Iberian, native American and African blood that in turn produced a new race, sometimes called mestizo. That process was perhaps deepest in Mexico - and because Mexico is the origin country of almost two-thirds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Black or White: Why the Census Misreads Hispanics | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

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