Word: disapora
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...course, the bright side of the New Orleans diaspora is that musicians like Neville are enriching the nation's music. Butler expects the disapora to influence sounds across the country. "Maybe five, ten years from now you are going to hear more street beats in their music," Butler said...
...Voodoo religious practices and Haiti’s history. The style of painting is vibrant and unique, often incorporating bright colors and lively action sequences. Haitian culture is particularly important in Mattapan, Dorchester and the greater Boston area, home to more than 60,000 members of the Haitian disapora. Because the art is so closely tied with the Haitian people, it is an ideal vehicle for cultural exchange and exploration...
...fathers" is surprising coming from Howe. The immigrants' tilt away from the collective vision and toward American materialism may not have been correct, but the dominance of theory over a pragmatic treatment of the facts in this concluding section is certainly not right either. Describing today's disapora is too much for Howe to handle. In its reliance on generalizations rather than anecdotes, this section lacks the immediacy which grips the rest of the book. Like the initial chapter describing life on the shtetl, the last seems short on life because it stands aloof, like experience twice removed...
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