(New to) Great Regulars: My disappointment with the book

is that it perpetuates the myth about schools like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. If one is blessed to attend these institutions, it makes one superior to everyone else.

Well, Cedric makes it to Brown University and is saved--I guess--from the University of Maryland and Howard University.

from E. Ethelbert Miller: Diverse: A Hope in the Unseen

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But jitsu wa, to be truthful, my most real relationship with Japanese culture is one of amnesia -- something that has been lost through the process of Americanization and through the political and historical trauma of the internment camps.

In recent years I've been interested in the ways Japan, in part through anime and in part through science fiction, has come to occupy a futuristic alternative cultural space.

from E. Ethelbert Miller: Foreign Policy in Focus: Fiesta!: Interview with David Mura

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