Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most white Harvard Summer School students are concerned about relating to black men and their problems. They have nurtured, painstakingly, a kit of liberal racial attitudes. Nevertheless, black summer school students speak of racism at Fair Harvard. And for a number of reasons, the blacks have made their own separate community in the Summer School...
...black students at the Summer School dispersed evenly throughout this "overwhelming white sea," as one black woman put it, they would be lost. However, as anyone can see in the dining halls where blacks eat with blacks, they are not lost. They have formed a community of their...
...however subtle exists at Harvard Summer School. According to Curry, "In the South, they don't like black people, and they'll tell you. Here, you see more subtle manifestations of racism. In the classroom, I'll say something, and they'll look back with an expression on the white person's face as if to say," Oh, he can talk!' And if I say something twice, they seem to say, Oh, he can think...
Powell added, however, "White people will let you know that they'll make concessions simply because they're aware that you go to Harvard. This in itself shows that they don't respect you for being a man, but for the little bit of education you have. The general attitude of the white people on this campus seems to be 'We don't respect you as a man; but your education has brought you a little respect...
...addition to a certain amount of racism, some whites retain other old attitudes towards the blacks. For example, some summer school women apparently accept certain ideas about the sexuality of black men. "White girls seem to be fascinated by black men. It is very evident here," said Barbara Miles...