Word: paradigm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flyer, which was posted in Cabot and MatherHouse two weeks ago, advertised a symposium heldlast Wednesday entitled "Spade Kicks: A symposiumon Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of SexualLiberation." The flyer, which showed a picture ofa Black woman performing a striptease for a whiteaudience, was voluntary removed by magazinemembers after some students raised objections...
SIMILARLY, Peninsula's outrageous poster publicizing a talk entitled "Spade Kicks: a Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of sexual Liberation" did nothing to promote dialogue, and only stirred intergroup disputes. The racial slurs and allusions to negative stereotypes of Black sexuality--including the poster's image of a Black woman performing a strip before a white audience--are hurtful and insensitive...
Late last week, Peninsula hung posters around campus advertising a lecture we are sponsoring entitled, "Spade Kicks: A Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation...
...social worker Gloria G. Hardy and Fidelity magazine editor E. Michael Jones, presented the thesis that the breakdown of the Black family is a primary cause of Black poverty; this breakdown resulted largely from the actions of white liberals of the 1950s and 60s who saw in Blacks a paradigm of sexual liberation. The speakers used to the word "Negro" to place the symposium in its historical context...
...short, the speakers believe that this attitude, held by Kerouac and others comprising the white liberal eiite, prevented the implementation of plans to strenghten the Black family. The white-imposed stereotype of Black society as a paradigm of "sexual liberation"-the stereotype of "spade kicks," if you will-is the very thing Hardy and Jones blame for many of the problems Black Americans face today...