April 1992
In This Issue
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Articles
Race and the Schooling of Black Americans
More than half of black college students fail to complete their degree work—for reasons that have little to do with innate ability or environmental conditioning. The problem, a social psychologist argues, is that they are undervalued, in ways that are sometimes subtle and sometimes not
An Island for Weary Despots
Imagine a permanent homeland for deposed or discarded rulers
Central Asia: Shatter Zone
It has been a long time since the world was preoccupied with “the Turks,” but we may be hearing from them again soon.
Toons
Michael Jackson and Prince are still playing with their racial and sexual personas
Friendly Beans: Ways Around the Inconveniences of Cooking and Digesting Beans
The Trouble With Lefties
Olympia
I've Seen the Best of It
The Lost Upland
Critical Care
The Last Serious Thing
The Puzzler
Word Watch
Here are a few of the words being tracked by the editors of The American Heritage Dictionary, published by Houghton Mifflin. A new word that exhibits sustained use may eventually make its way into the dictionary. The information below represents the first stage of research, not the final product.
The April Almanac
Notes: The Last Resort
A guide to its amenities
Franck: Through Kofi's Eyes
The new French undersecretary of state for integration, a black African immigrant, rejects multiculturalism in favor of what he calls “republican citizenship”
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Mark Twain on American Imperialism
With the long U.S. involvement in the Philippines about to end. The Atlantic, through the eyes of Mark Twain, looks bark at the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902, a war that many Americans saw as not only a calamity for the Filipinos but also a betrayal of our anti-imperial past. Twain’s angry essay serves to remind us that some of the assumptions that drove U. S. foreign policy in the Cold War—foremost among them that we should spread our way of life to the world—go back to a time before communism, and might therefore live on into a world without communism
"Thirty Thousand Killed a Million"
Anti-Imperialist Homecoming
The Bear at the Dump
Yellow Flags
Conrad’s father had come to visit after an absence of several years, and now sought a way to get close to his son
Missing
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