Unit 1: Selection Vocabulary 3

My skin being on the fair side of plain Yoplait, I designated my dark-brown hair as the body part that would legitimize me, letting its split ends shoot for my waist.

I didn't know how to talk about the histories embedded in my bones: the damming of our language that coincided with the damming of the Columbia River, my wordless conversations with the towering petroglyph woman by the water, my belly's swell that my mother told me was an Indian thing while I battled it with Weight Watchers point counts.

I threw myself into super-Indianness, taking both of the Native-studies courses offered by the university's anthropology department.

Creative-writing programs are notorious for the feelings of resentment that brew when students feel like a bunch of blood-hungry dogs made to scrap over funds granted on the basis of artistic prowess, but my colleagues were supportive of my scholarship.

In our culture, accepting a gift with grace and giving meaningful gifts are skills more important, and more difficult to cultivate, than learning to graph calculus problems.

I argued that it would be better if that honor were based on achievement rather than gender, and he looked at me and said, dismissively, "You don’t know what you are talking about, you’re a small girl."

I also knew that victimhood is not a virtue. That being discriminated against does not make you somehow morally better.

But gender is always about context and circumstance.

Your standardized ideologies will not always fit your life.

The truth is that I learned so much more about feminism from watching the women traders in the market in Nsukka where I grew up than from reading any seminal feminist text.

It was intimated, however, in that case, that this amendment was regarded by the statesmen of that day as insufficient to protect the colored race from certain laws which had been enacted in the Southern states, imposing upon the colored race onerous disabilities and burdens, and curtailing their rights in the pursuit of life, liberty, and property to such an extent that their freedom was of little value...

It was intimated, however, in that case, that this amendment was regarded by the statesmen of that day as insufficient to protect the colored race from certain laws which had been enacted in the Southern states, imposing upon the colored race onerous disabilities and burdens, and curtailing their rights in the pursuit of life, liberty, and property to such an extent that their freedom was of little value...

...the fourteenth amendment was devised to meet this exigency.

By the fourteenth amendment, all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are made citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside; and the states are forbidden from making or enforcing any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, or shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...

We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority.

The argument necessarily assumes that if, as has been more than once the case, and is not unlikely to be so again, the colored race should become the dominant power in the state legislature, and should enact a law in precisely similar terms, it would thereby relegate the white race to an inferior position.

Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts, or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation.

The discrepancies cast doubt on the accreditation of a university she said she attended and the degrees she listed.

During the interview process with Robertson, The Booster staff found inconsistencies in Robertson’s credentials.

Robertson said in the conference call interview she earned a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature and a Ph.D. in English from Corllins University. Corllins, however, has been under fire in the national media for its lack of legitimacy.

However, a check of the records at the City of Stockton’s Community Development Department indicated that no business license or building permit existed for Corllins University, as stated by City of Stockton permit technician Carmen Davila.

Accreditation is a status given to colleges and universities deemed valid educational institutions.

The university is listed as one of the “top 10 sources of invalid degree reports or inquiries” received by the Oregon Office of Degree Authorization.