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...conventional wisdom had been that black self-hatred was a by-product of discrimination that would wither away as society became more tolerant. Despite the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the black-is-beautiful movement of the '70s, the proliferation of black characters on television shows during the '80s and the renascent black nationalist movement of the '90s, the prowhite message has not lost its power. In 1985 psychologist Darlene Powell-Hopson updated the Clarks' experiment using black and white Cabbage Patch dolls and got a virtually identical result: 65% of the black children preferred white dolls. "Black...
...started out with beautiful weather. Temperatures were in the high '80s...
...trial is a measure of just how far the '80s' flashiest arbitrager has fallen. Seema denies that she has any of his money, and even insists that he built his fortune in part using her family's money. She tearfully recounted the torment that has resulted from her former husband's crimes. Charities returned her checks, schools that had once taken millions removed the Boesky name from buildings, and she was threatened by one of the bankers Boesky % helped bring to trial. "Overnight I went from someone who felt proud of who she was to a social outcast," she sobbed...
...scene depicted in Social Disease (1986), le plus chic twosome is Guy and Venice Huber, dancing their youth away -- and, because they are Rudnick people, constantly refreshing it. With its Evelyn Waugh drawl, Social Disease is Rudnick's revenge on the less- than-zilch nightlife novels of the mid-'80s. So I'll Take It (1989) must be his anti-Portnoy. A Jewish boy who loves and enjoys his mother -- call the cops! Paul's mom Selma and her sisters Lillian and Hilda are the models for Hedy Reckler and her bargain-hunter siblings. The novel is "only" about...
...politics of memory is complicated. Never remember? Or never forget? Or simply, Never again? Now the parents' generation, the survivors of the Hitler years, are in their 70s and 80s and are dying off. The generation's memory -- along with whatever objects and images and cautionary knowledge may be salvaged -- needs to find permanent residence. Or else it will be lost. This week, a powerful -- and controversial -- fortress against forgetting is being dedicated in Washington...