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Cognitive schemas—thought structures—influence what we notice and how the things we notice get interpreted.
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The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged.
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Many will wonder how a nation that just elected its first black president could possibly have a racial caste system. But as discussed in chapter 6, there is no inconsistency whatsoever between the election of Barack Obama to the highest office in the land and the existence of a racial caste system in the era of colorblindness. The current system of control depends on black exceptionalis,; it is not disproved or undermined by it.
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For more than a decade--from the mid-195ps until the late 1960s--conservatoves systematically and strategically linked opposition to civil rights legislation to calls for law and order, arguing that Martin Luther King Jr's philosophy of civil disobedience was a leading cause of crime,
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We have to be more aggressive on the boards and deny their penetration. We also have to shoot better than we have all season.
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I think we'd played three pretty good games in a row. Everyone's going to have a bad game, and I thought we might have one after how well we played against Pilot Rock. But at least it was now and not next week.
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We'll start ramping up (today) with full practice. But we're hosting the Big Sky tournament, so we're going to be short practice time. It might put us at a disadvantage.
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They made adjustments at half-time and we didn't. Their press killed us, and our girls just looked like they were worn out.
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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.
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