Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is a nice element of nostalgia for the bad old guys in Crazy Joe. In addition, he was nothing if not a veteran Mafia soldier, so there is ample opportunity to poke around glumly tasteless mansions inhabited by sundry god-fatherly types. And there they are, nibbling- their ethnic viands as they order up colorful executions of errant associates. Such sequences should satisfy Cosa Nostra buffs, who seem to form a significant portion of the movie audience today. Finally, as every tabloid reader must remember, Crazy Joe contracted toward the end a loose alliance with black mobsters - also outsiders...
...Grand Rapids, it will sell anywhere," market researchers are fond of saying about an area where all kinds of products are routinely tested, from Lipton's soup to Cornnuts. In many ways, the district is a cross section of the U.S., with a varied mix of incomes and ethnic groups, a blue-collar class that is suffering from increasing unemployment and a not-so-silent majority that is outraged by inflation, long lines at gasoline stations and scandal in Washington. Seizing on this unrest, the Democrats made the election a referendum on President Nixon...
...school is not actually concerned with recruiting for a racial mix since an ethnic mix exists by the nature of Harvard graduate students, Director Barbara Rassman said. Several children who come to the school are non-English speaking at first...
Thernstrom criticizes most current theories of the lack of social mobility. His study showed that blacks with urban backgrounds fared no better than those with rural backgrounds; blacks on the average received at least as many years of education as more-successful immigrant groups; many ethnic groups were more segregated from the rest of society than were blacks; and black families until quite recently rarely fit Daniel Moynihan's matriarchal stereotype. He concludes that low social mobility among blacks resulted partially from "the nature of black culture," but mostly from discrimination...
...ethnic mixes of major American cities vary considerably, so it seems somewhat dubious to argue that rates of social mobility are uniform in all cities, at the same time that one studies varying rates of social mobility among different ethnic groups. Unfortunately, very little research of the type attempted by Thernstrom has ever been done in other cities. Social history is indebted to Thernstrom for his groundbreaking effort in the study of American social mobility; future studies should determine whether or not his optimistic conclusions concerning upward mobility of lower economic classes apply nation-wide...