Word: racialization
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...recent Yard cross-burning was termed a "deplorable incident" by Dean of Freshmen Delmar Leighton yesterday, but he contended, "it does not represent the attitude of the undergraduate body on racial discrimination...
...since the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaiians have faced a half-century's accumulated problems of transition: the breakdown of economic monopoly, the rise of aggressive labor unionism, the threat of Communist control, the restlessness of homecoming veterans, and the rights, problems and adjustments of linguistic and racial minorities. For each problem they have found, if not the answer, at least a piece of an answer. Out of the pieces, Hawaii has created a bright new mosaic of American life...
Actress Yamaguchi is pretty in a surprisingly conventional Hollywood way, and so, despite its theme of racial tension, is Japanese War Bride. The movie proves notable in only one respect: in the past, the screen's racially mixed love stories have led at least one of the partners to no good end. In Producer Joseph Bernhard's switch on Madame Butterfly, the lovers manage to live happily ever after...
Time was when Joe Louis let his eloquent fists do his talking for him. But last week the ex-heavyweight champion found himself shadow-boxing with an elusive opponent: racial discrimination, disguised in doubletalk. Joe fumbled for the right words, then angrily called it "the biggest fight of my life." Specifically, Joe was squaring off against the Professional Golfers' Association, which allows only "Caucasians" to enter a P.G.A.-sponsored tournament...
Flatlanders & Hillsiders. A Crier touch of satire is its tongue-in-cheek division of the world into "Hillsiders" (the residents of Hollywood Hills) and "Flatlanders" (everybody else). Rose occasionally uses the nicknames to needle racial intolerance. Sample: "Flatlanders are O.K., but how would you like your sister to marry...