Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contemporary university, then, may be something like an old-time American city. If ethnic organizations serve as neighborhoods, then the Chinese Students Association might be San Francisco's Chinatown, Hillel is New York's Lower East Side and the newly formed Italian American Association is Boston's North...
Last year it was Mafia movies. Next year comes a grittier crop of organized- crime films focused on Chicano street gangs in L.A. Films about Chinatown mobs like the Ghost Shadows can't be far behind. Keep your head down...
...upper-middle-class whites of West Los Angeles, of Hollywood and Beverly Hills and Westwood and Brentwood and Bel-Air, drift dreamily along in the illusion that the society still belongs to them. In important ways, it does, of course. But out across the city grids lie Koreatown and Chinatown; and Watts, for so long a black enclave, is changing into a barrio. Up north on the Berkeley campus, Sproul plaza has a line of desks arrayed for the recruitment of Armenian students, South Asian students, Japanese-American students, Vietnamese students, Thai students, multicultural gay and lesbian students, Korean-American...
...Toque in Los Angeles to show off his ideas. At the same time, ethnic communities were growing rapidly, especially around Los Angeles. The town of Westminster in Orange County was becoming a vast Little Saigon, eerily reminiscent of Vietnam two decades ago. Monterey Park is now the modern Chinatown, where purist chefs from Hong Kong disdain any mixed methods -- and draw their own faithful crowds...
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