Word: assimilationism
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Earlier generations of Portuguese immigrants sought to resolve the problem of ethnic identity by complete assimilation into the American mainstream. But while assimilation resolved the Portuguese identity crisis, the price paid was ethnic emasculation, as they diluted their national customs and heritage in American currents.
Many of the younger Portuguese, like Madalena Barboza, who came to Cambridge in 1961 when she was nine years old, flatly reject assimilation as a solution to ethnic identity problems. "We should de-emphasize the ideal of Americanization," Barboza says. "If I'm going to be called anything, I'd...
The Portuguese in Cambridge have not wholly been able to reconcile the warring impulses towards assimilation on one hand and ethnic identity on the other. Precariously balanced between cultures, the Portuguese are forced to walk a tightrope of assimilation over an ethnic no-man's land. While the Portuguese have...
Harvard has subtly acknowledged the broader issues on which the DeFunis case could conceivably be brought to bear, but it nonetheless holds fast to the contention that its decision to file the brief came from deep concern for minorities. Yet, until Harvard demonstrates that this committment is stronger than that...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, Converging Lines and Assimilation by Barry Gerson, and Horizons by Larry Gottheim, Jan. 17 at 7:30, Street Angel by Frank Borzage with Janel Gaynor and Charles Farrell, Jan. 20, at 7:30, $1