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...Unlike the Canadians in Tanzania, I have not found myself in a balmy, tropical place. Nor has my project been as gratifying as ladling out soup in the Bronx or rebuilding homes in New Orleans would be. My undertaking has alienated me from powerful people in my community whose help might’ve come in handy in the future. It has gained me a wholly undeserved reputation locally as a “progressive.” The Tribune now refers to me as a “community activist”—a term I don?...
...then Rumsfeld spoiled the ploy. Instead of just keeping quiet and running things as he had before, he greeted the Rice leak with a loud Bronx cheer and suggested to foreign reporters that it wouldn't change much of anything at all, which of course was true. A White House official, tongue in cheek, explained Rumsfeld's remarks by saying, "The Secretary's charm offensive is well known...
Kelly, who is also a Crimson executive editor, grew up in Woodlawn, a part of the Bronx, New York that is home to a large Irish-American and Irish immigrant population. But he and his friends took a slightly different approach to their culture, turning to punk-influenced Irish groups like The Pogues and The Dropkick Murphys rather than traditional Celtic music. He also began sporting Irish clothing and reading Irish history and literature...
...Irish began, for most, to dissolve. An Irish Catholic could become a mayor, a governor, or a congressman, and in 1960 a man named Kennedy even became the President of the United States. As the Irish began to flee their urban strongholds in places like the South Bronx, Hell’s Kitchen, and South Boston, the vital need for unity—the force that had driven the Irish to show their strength and argue for their right to exist—began to dissolve as well.And so St. Patrick’s Day became more important than ever.On...
...conforms to the neat classification of rap as a purely “black” form.Still, to deny the tumultuous interplay of racial politics in hip-hop history would be irresponsible, especially now that the Cold Crush Brothers’ Grandmaster Caz leads bus tours of the South Bronx for flabby middle-class fans. But beyond the obvious danger of fetishization suggested by the recent invasion of many of rap’s holy sites by camera-toting amateur anthropologists lurk more subtle methodological problems.As tennis shoes and ghettoblasters fill gallery walls, hip-hop curators will inevitably encounter many...