Word: racialization
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...Chinese-born sophomore, and Roberts, a Negro, claim that Hazen's refused them part time jobs that are now held by white students. John M. Whouley, owner of the restaurant, insists that Chi and Roberts were not turned down because of their racial origins. He pointed out that a Chinese student worked at Hazen's all summer...
Actually, they are worriers. They worry about racial equality, and when they go home to find their parents less enlightened, they begin to worry about them. They think in global terms-about Indonesia, Liberia and Main Street. So many wanted to learn about Russia that the college set up a Russian department. The classics major is just about extinct (one major in Latin last year, none in Greek). It is the time to be a social scientist and to be haunted by the woes of the world...
Despite its high Hollywood gloss, the story is told with considerable honesty and understated force. It will therefore doubtless irritate both professional Southerners and professional champions of racial equality. Back to her native South goes a white-skinned Negro girl (Jeanne Grain), who has "passed" in the North while studying nursing. In her home town, she is first terrified, then furious, at the treatment she gets as a Negro. It is not long until she comes close to being robbed by a fellow Negro, and raped by white men. Torn between running back North to her white doctor fiance (William...
...propaganda might charge that the sour-sweet old plantation owner (Ethel Barrymore) is a "symbol" of white paternalism and the Ethel Waters role a "symbol" of Aunt Jemimaism. But Pinky is the most skillful type of propaganda: in avoiding crude and conventional labeling, it leaves a strong impression that racial discrimination is not only unreasonable but evil...
Chinese native Chao-chu Chi '52 and Thomas L. Roberts '50, Cambridge-born negro, accused Hazen's of breaking Massachusetts' Fair Employment Practices law by refusing to give them jobs because of their racial backgrounds...