Word: diasporas
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...seem strange that a white boy from the suburbs of Los Angeles would find strength in a song that was born out of the African Diaspora. My ancestors did not come to America on slave ships. They were not threatened, lynched, or discriminated against because of the color of their skin. They did not sing Negro spirituals...
Counter occupies a post of tremendous prominence and power at this University. His office is on the first floor of University Hall, next to the Dean of Harvard College’s. The Harvard Foundation provoked a student organization diaspora last year with the expansion of its offices in the basement of Thayer Hall. Counter ostensibly speaks for diversity on a campus where more than half of the students are not white. His inflammatory language constitutes a failure to live up to the expectations incumbent in his position...
...side of the Atlantic. If he succeeds in putting the economy back on track, France will no longer be seen as "the sick man of Europe," but can instead reemerge as a European and global leader in confronting the challenges of the 21st century. To the French and their Diaspora, Sarkozy has offered nothing less than a France nouvelle. Let's just hope that in the process, he will soften up his tough stance on immigration and will act as the President of all the French people, as he promised in his victory speech...
...More likely, Chai's book suffers from a surfeit of coming-of-age memoirs by Asian Americans, as well as a blessed obsolescence: China's diaspora has largely fared well in the U.S. since Chai was a girl. Her father even tells her, "There's no such thing as racism against Chinese. You just don't know how to get along with people...
...concert. It’s really an impromptu gig.” Joining the casual atmosphere of the LowKeys will be a subsection of the Harvard Kuumba Singers, the Sisters of Kuumba. They will be singing a medley of a capella songs from the African Diaspora. According to member Naabia G. Ofosu-Amaah ‘07, many members of the ensemble are excited to be back in the Holyoke Center lineup. “It’s something that the Sisters of Kuumba haven’t really done at least for a while...