http://www.newamerica.net/taxonomy/term/1595 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2009/affirmative_action_and_after_9706 <p> A recent column in the alumni newsletter of my alma mater, the University of Mississippi, is headlined &quot;We Have Legacies.&quot; The quote is lifted from the column and would ordinarily evoke the world of Southern landed gentry. A photograph on the page, however, shows the author to be an African-American woman, thereby turning another Old South stereotype on its head at a school that already has cast off many symbols of its all-white history. The battle flag of the Confederacy is no longer displayed at Ole Miss football games, for instance, and &quot;Dixie&quot; <p><a href="http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2009/affirmative_action_and_after_9706">read more</a></p> W. Ralph Eubanks The American Scholar The Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program Race &amp; Identity Social Cohesion Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:47:00 -0500 Cecille Isidro 9706 at http://www.newamerica.net