The musical was unusually race-sensitive, and Robeson sings like a bass-baritone angel.
A major study of the impact of race-sensitive admission policies at selective colleges and universities had just been published.
The case raised the crucial question of whether a city or state can use race-sensitive policies, short of quotas, to reduce racial inequality and tension.
The language used on the products is far more race-sensitive - gone are the archaic, racially-loaded phrases like 'whiten' and 'bleach', in favour of lighten and brighten.
To my race-sensitive ears, on reading it 45 years after the novel was published, it was almost enough to make me give up on the book.
YESTERDAY, as expected, the Supreme Court upheld, by a 6-2 vote, a 2006 amendment to the Michigan state constitution banning race-sensitive admissions policies in public universities.
If the Republicans do not alter their principled opposition to race-sensitive policies, an alternative might be to support actions that help lower-income Americans across the board, as discussed in the article.
Although the Rehnquist Supreme Court has severely limited the use of race-sensitive criteria in the awarding of government contracts, reapportionment and other areas, it has so far managed to avoid the debate about affirmative action in higher education.
Unlike Mr. Powell -- who simply said that reasonable people could disagree -- Ms. Rice straddled the issue, saying that she supported both race-sensitive admissions and a Bush administration amicus brief that could lead to those policies' being declared illegal.
What all these states have learned is that the only real way to make race-sensitive policies unnecessary is to guarantee black and Latino children from poor communities a realistic chance at a decent education that prepares them for college.
Having eliminated the race-sensitive policies that once compensated for these inequalities, California is now being forced to deal with the inferior public schools that made those policies necessary.
