Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is part one. Part two, an examination of ethnic identity and political organization in the Portuguese community, will appear on Monday...
East Cambridge and Cambridgeport, easily accessible to the City's industry and plentiful in lowrent housing, have been densely populated ethnic communities since the turn of the century...
...bird is a Tlingit Indian totem pole--a striking introduction to the museum's current exhibition of American Indian and Eskimo art. This exhibit, which the museum calls "the most important exhibition of Native Alaskan art ever assembled" finally brings ethnic art into the main exhibition halls of a great art museum, a place which, by its quality, it has long deserved...
...overos. The letter, to be read from the 200 pulpits of his diocese, was no ordinary spiritual admonition. The bishop's diocese lies in the heartland of Spain's embattled Basque minority. The pugnacious Añoveros, half-Basque himself and deeply sympathetic to regional demands for ethnic autonomy, had penned a spirited attack on the government's refusal to allow the free and open use of the Basque language and customs. So strong were the bishop's words that some priests refused to read them, and conservative worshipers stalked angrily out of churches...
...going to get any real political power in New York City, they must work through the regular Democratic organization. By cooperating with the other groups within the broad-based Democratic coalition, blacks and Puerto Ricans will be assured of "getting a piece of the pie." By indulging in an ethnic separatist political style, blacks and Puerto Ricans face the prospect of constantly losing elections until they become a majority of the city's population. Right now, the city's electorate is over 65 per cent white and it will be at least 15 years before minority groups become dominant...