Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...youngsters of the Hispanic community make up one-third of Bade County's pupil population, and they score well above other Bade students on English and math achievement tests. They have ready access to bilingual education, and in 1976, 72% went on to college...
...Bade County declared itself to be a bilingual jurisdiction, and Spanish became the second official language for such things as election ballots, public signs and local directories. Despite this accommodating gesture, there is friction between Hispanics and non-Hispanics in Bade. Many English-speaking residents, particularly older ones, resent the pervasiveness of the new language. There are frequent complaints of Cuban clannishness (only 5% of Cubans intermarry) and of arrogance. Result: many anglos are gradually retreating from Miami...
...with Hispanics for low-cost public housing and lower-level service jobs that formerly were a black preserve. Says Reeves: "Before the Cuban influx, blacks had most of the hotel jobs, now they have less than 2%." One reason for this decline is that many jobs now require both English and Spanish, and most blacks do not speak the latter...
Like other Hispanic groups, chicanos strongly support the California law providing that students who speak little or no English should receive bilingual education if their parents want them to. Last year only half of the 120,000 students in Los Angeles schools who were eligible for that help were getting it. One reason: a mere 5.5% of the city's 30,000 public school teachers are Hispanic...
...Museum of Modern Art collection. Miriam ColÓn, whose Puerto Rican Traveling Theater gives summertime performances in ghetto streets from the back of a flatbed truck, has opened the first Hispanic off-Broadway theater in a recycled West Side firehouse and will offer plays in both English and Spanish. On the Lower East Side, the New Rican Village cultural center lures actors and dancers and poets. So whatever else the New York experience has done to Puerto Ricans, it has not stifled the creative impulse...