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Under the rule of Jim Crow, blacks were united by the struggle against racial oppression and tended to speak with one voice. Today the expansion of opportunities has allowed African Americans to split along economic lines; the & interests of the relatively well-off middle class are not the same as those of the poor. As a result, skin color alone is no longer a reliable guide to blacks' political attitudes, which range from the antiwar radicalism of Oakland Congressman Ron Dellums to the conservativism of Stanford University economist Thomas Sowell. Yet many blacks cling to an old tradition of rallying...
...Jump Jim Crow," one of the minstrel songs on the album, features a sparse arrangement of guitar and mandolin which complements Shocked's simple vocals. Towards the end of the song, Shocked signs "Zip-a-Dee-Doo Dah" in a soft, shrill voice reminiscent of early 20th century popular music. Moral and political implications of the blackface minstrelsy aside, "Jump Jim Crow" is one of the most successful songs on the album...
...things awry. Chanticleer has forgotten to crow, and somehow the sun has risen any way. Ridiculed by his barnyard friends, the frustrated fowl voyages to "The city" in search of a higher fame and fortune. He aspires to be a singer...
...figure often invoked by Puryear's sculpture. The freed son of a white man and a black slave woman, he served as a guide for various Western expeditions in the early 19th century, fought in the Mexican War and was at one point made a chief of the Crow Indians -- a symbol of multicultural America if ever there...
...leaning toward Clinton," said Crow, aformer army captain who served three years inGermany. "I'm wondering how electable heis--whether he had an affair and whether hepersonally dodged the draft during the VietnamWar...