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classes; Muslim leaders now have asked for separate secondary schools.
Los Angeles Times A1 (February 8, 1992). African American converts to
Islam increasingly are sending their children to private Muslim schools;
there are eight in the New York area and more than 60 nationwide. New
York Times A14 (October 6, 1992).
58 183 Searchlight 7, 18 (September 1990), 182 Searchlight 4 (August
1990); Weeks (1990: 93-94).
59 New York Times M 7 (January 10, 1991), s.1 p.15 (January 13,1991). The
very day the New York proposal was announced a front-page headline
declared: "South Africa Desegrates Some White Public Schools." New
York Times A1 (January 10, 1991). Detroit has established an all-male
primary school; although formally nonracial, more than 90 per cent of
Detroit schoolchildren are minority. New York Times A12 (March 1,
1991). Most "historically black" public universities want to retain that
identity. Hacker (1992: 154-58). Even in integrated institutions, some
minority instructors admit only minority students to their classes. New
York Times A20 (January 29, 1992) (Leonard Jeffries's African history
course at CUNY's City College). Some whites have responded by establishing
white student unions to defend their privileges and assert their
cultural superiority. Chronicle of Higher Education A37 (September 11,
1991).
60 Independent on Sunday 8 (November 3, 1991) (70 per cent of a sample of
successful women had attended girls' schools; but dubious methodology);
Wellesley College Center for Research on Women (1992); New
York Times M (February 12, 1992); Los Angeles Times A] (February 12,
1992) (review of more than 1000 studies). A recent book, however,
suggested that women teachers in girls' schools may encourage obedience,
conformity, passivity, and niceness. Brown & Gilligan (1992).
61 Los Angeles TimesQ] (February 28,1992). The Lesbian Herstory Archives
in Brooklyn bars men from some files (in accordance with the donor's
wishes) and encourages them to send female researchers. 3(1) Ms.59
(July/August 1992).
62 Chronicle of Higher Education B1 (September 25, 1991) (Prof. Troy
Duster, an African American sociologist at UC Berkeley).
63 Bourdieu (1991); Curran et al. (1986). Dutch and Danish experiments
with schools and the mass media offer examples.
64 The developer of Colonial Village, a 640-unit condominium in Arlington,
Virginia, just outside the District of Columbia, has been fined $850,000
for using only white models in its ads from 1981 to 1986, in violation of
the 1968 Fair Housing Act. New York Times s. 1 p. 10 (May 17, 1992). At
their annual conference, American Methodists adopted the first new
"Book of Worship" in 25 years. An optional prayer described God as "our
Mother and Father," "bakerwoman" leavening hopes, and giving "birth
to our world." It included a Mexican Christmas eve service, many Native
American prayers, and a Korean rite. New York Times s.1 p. 14 (May 17,
1992). The co-chair of the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument Fund observed
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