Word: racialization
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...this remote, desolate route, tricky with fierce dust storms, violent thermal drafts rising from the upland deserts, snow-toothed mountains that bite more than 20,000 feet into the sky. He got us through with nothing worse than airsickness to Tihua, dusty, dirty, crossroads capital of Sinkiang, where the racial blood of all Central Asia mingles in the faces on the street. We planned to fly back with our pilot but, luckily, chance intervened...
...record makers mix propaganda for democracy and education (a selling point to parents) with their music. Decca's Churkendoose ("it was neither a turkey, a chicken, a duck nor a goose") with Comedian-Dancer Ray Bolger is a broad plea for racial tolerance. Capitol Records bound books inside its Bozo the Clown albums so that children could follow the narrative of Bozo's travels, get a rudimentary idea of geography. Bozo's sales: 1,000,000. Most of the companies are dead serious about their job as molders of the young mind. When a Columbia Records survey...
...Atlantic seaboard. But its traditions, the record of the numerous and illustrious leaders it has given the nation, and its reverence for the gentility, charm, and grace that characterize life below the Mason-Dixon line, make Virginia one of the most "southern" of all states. Its attitude toward racial segregation stems almost inevitably from the brutality and humiliation of the Reconstruction era, an era whose traces have not even yet entirely passed away...
Reformers from the North have always been glad to advise Southern states on the proper conduct of racial relations. Usually this advice contains no indication that the donor appreciates the institutional and historical framework within which change must be effected; and all too often it reeks self-righteousness which is by no means justified. To show that the Northern escutcheon is not without blot, one need search no further than Cambridge, itself, seat of culture and learning, to find an instance of social discrimination which occurred only last Spring...
...amount of legislation or flat can bring racial equality. It will come slowly, and can spring only from the considered and deliberate action of individuals. For this reason, the voluntary levelling of racial barriers in collegiate sports is of an importance almost impossible to overestimate. Here is an area of activity common to every section. Here is no vested interest with a stake in preserving the status quo. Here is a small beginning from which great good may grow...